[81425] in Cypherpunks
Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Sun Jun 8 10:23:52 1997
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 06:56:52 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 07:51:37AM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970608053415.20770A-100000@well.com>, on 06/08/97
> at 07:36 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
>
>>I don't think commercial speech should be treated as second-class speech.
>>But my position is hardly surprising.
>
>Well I think that there are some that would confuse the issue between 1st
>Amendment free speech and the issues surrounding fraud. Especially those
>in government who write the laws that regulate commercial speech.
>
The prospectus is a legal document -- part of the contract between the
mutual fund and the customer.
So, the question is, should there be any legal constraints on the
"speech" in contracts? Can I sign a contract, and later be able to
say "Oh, *that* clause! That was just a *joke*"?
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
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