[80744] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam IS Free Speech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Tue May 27 03:19:53 1997
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk (Paul Bradley)
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:11:30 CST
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970522182630.712B-100000@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
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In list.cypherpunks, paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk writes:
> You are forgetting the 998348934th ammendment of the US constitution:
>
> Congress shall make no law infringing the right of the people to kidnap
> megaphone owners...
The 1st one begins with "Congress shall make no law", and that's quite
enough. The US government is forbidden to interfere in matters of
speech. (yah, I know this doesn't seem to slow 'em down much) You're
right that a sendmail (or other process vulnerable to subversion) should
protect itself. My fear is that our benevolent protectorate will
_require_ such precautions, because that concedes the duty to provide
other precautions as the law might require.
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