[11908] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: You Make the Call
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Sun Apr 24 03:23:14 1994
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 00:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.sf.ca.us>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404232210.PAA21880@well.sf.ca.us>
On Sat, 23 Apr 1994, Brock N. Meeks wrote:
> But when it turned its investigative eye toward an unknown
> service called the Electronic Postal Service which sent its
> solicitations throughout the Internet in February, Dispatch
> apparently hit a raw nerve. Because the people sponsoring EPS,
> Suarez Corporation Industries, have now sued Dispatch and its
> entire staff of one -- me -- for on a variety of charges. For
> the record, all of them are unfounded.
>
>
> Dispatch has its own counsel now, the heavyweight law firm of
> Baker & Hostetler, with one of the nation's foremost First
> Amendment attorney's, Bruce Sanford, acting as its counsel.
That's good to hear. This is an important case that must be well
defended. And I hope that you're planning to countersue on the basis of
malicious prosecution (I think that's the one).
>
> But what about does the Net think of such issues? Do formal
> publications, such as Dispatch, and the much larger, informal,
> yet just as vital, postings of the Internet community at large
> deserve formal protections? Or will open and frank discourse dry
> up and wither away under the threat of blistering litigation?
>
>
This sure is a case of 1st Amendment issues and its critical to fight.
Where's the EFF in all of this? It seems like this is one where they
should be right in there with you.
Miles
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