[83261] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Peterson)
Thu Jul 17 16:16:47 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:36:58 -0600
From: Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
To: David Formosa <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
>
> Now I'm clearly not a 'merkin and have little knowlig of how your
> system works but I would have thourt creating a sepreate marking sceam for
> 'news sites' and makeing it illegal to misslable would be creating a
> licenced press and therefore unconstutional.
>
Well, in theory, requiring a licenced press would violate the 1st
Amendment.
Requiring any kind of rateing on a web page would seem to be the same as
requiring a newspaper to rate itself to protect someone from reading a
story that would be offensive to her/him. I don't beleave the newspaper
industry would stand by and let that happen to them.
> You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And The Make New Chains For
> Themselves? --Terry Pratchett
Hehe. Who ever said people were smart?
-Doug
