[65378] in Cypherpunks
Re: Fed appellate judge remarks re anonymity, free speech on the net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Z.B.)
Fri Sep 13 11:04:53 1996
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:47:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Z.B." <zachb@netcom.com>
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960913060631.006bf908@pop.ricochet.net>
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Greg Broiles wrote:
> At 09:24 PM 9/12/96 -0700, zachb@netcom.com wrote:
> >> (Also in today's news, the 9th Circuit upheld a CA statute forbidding sales
> >> of material considered "harmful to minors" from vending machines.)
> >
> >Even if this statute is meant only to apply to cigarette machines, which
> >would seem to be the case given all of the anti-cig stuff going on now,
> >what good will it do?
>
> Whoops. Sorry. Wrong context. What I should have said was "the 9th Circuit
> upheld a CA statute forbidding sales of *printed* material considered
> 'harmful to minors' from unsupervised vending machines". The publication(s)
>
It's still mostly the same thing. I've never seen the type of machine
that you're talking about, and I don't think anyone would be dumb enough
to install one in a store that is near a school, or frequented my
minors. This law just does not seem like a very good idea.
---
Zach Babayco
zachb@netcom.com <----- finger for PGP public key
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4127
