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Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Thu Mar 24 18:47:19 2005

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:42:14 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050324163854.78502.qmail@web14930.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


David Barak wrote:

>wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to simply get a
>lawyer and an engineer in the same room and brainstorm
>until you came up with something which
>pretty-much-worked(tm) and was at least arguably
>compliant with the law?  There have been a couple of
>ideas bandied about on this list which are arguably
>compliant and technically simple.
>
>  
>
Why would any person in their right mind comply with an
unconstitutional law?

>This isn't a principle for which I'd gladly go to
>jail.    All I'm saying is that it isn't the
>doom&gloom you're portraying - Utah politicians being
>difficult doesn't mean the end of free speech forever.
> Why not wait and see what happens?
>  
>
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke


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