[9220] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Wed Dec 22 18:13:16 1993

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 09:37:03 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Bill Sommerfeld's message of Tue, 21 Dec 1993 20:12:44 -0500 <9312220113.AA17769@psi.com>


>For many forms of "stuff", your proposed solution ("don't let anyone
>send if if the recipient country doesn't want it, even if the
>individual recipients do want it") would likely be an unconstitutional

Careful.  How many countries have an equivalent of the U.S.'s First
Amendment? And, even if we're talking about a Constitutional right, in
the U.S., to post whatever we want, you have to remember that treaties
are coequal with the Constitution.

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