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Re: Is anonymous speech protected?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Tue May 18 10:56:33 1999
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<Pine.LNX.4.10.9905172154580.18671-100000@spitfire.law.miami.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 00:17:27 -0400
To: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>,
Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com>
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: Cryptography-C2 <cryptography@c2.net>,
SoftSpeech <sftspch@samsara.law.cwru.edu>
At 9:58 PM -0400 5/17/99, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>For an only slighted dated summary on mask laws see
>http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/clipper1.htm#ToC54
>
>For a discussion of anonymity laws see
>http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm
>
>And yes, it's a real case, decided as you heard, but I don't have the
>citation handy.
>
The right to anonymous speach was mentioned in the recent 9th Circuit
ruling in the Bernstein case http://jya.com/bernstein-9th.htm :
"...the government's efforts to retard progress in
cryptography may implicate the Fourth Amendment, as well
as the right to speak anonymously, see McIntyre v. Ohio Elec-
tions Comm'n, 115 S. Ct. 1511, 1524 (1995) ... "
Arnold Reinhold
