[52191] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCC-type Regulation of Cyberspace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Fri Mar 15 12:03:08 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:18:51 -0800
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz), tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May),
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jamesd@echeque.com
Timothy C. May wrote:
>>Mr. Frantz, unless you can prove your claims here, forthwith, I must inform
>>you that they are in violation of the Truth in Speech Act of 1996. Please
>>retract them, now.
Bill Frantz wrote:
>Political speech, not commercial speech. The act doesn't apply or is
>unconstitutional.
I see: The bill of rights reads:
"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of *political*
speech".
Never knew that until now.
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