[90443] in Cypherpunks
Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Nov 19 02:06:00 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03007802b09803dce3d1@[168.161.105.216]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:25:12 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
"Colin A. Reed" <aleph@cco.caltech.edu>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: Peter Herngaard <pethern@inet.uni2.dk>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 7:54 PM -0700 11/18/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Sorry. I was unclear. I was comparing U.S. citizens with citizens of
>another country who are living in that country.
>
>If a U.S. citizen living in the U.S. is running an ISP, I would argue from
>principle that he has a right to distribute writings (I like Jeanne's
>bookstore analogy) penned by citizens of another country.
This is a slam dunk truth. This is black letter law.
I'm surprised this is even being debated.
"Congress shall make no law.." does not mean that government gets to ban
sales and distritution of works by Tolstoy, Zola, Stendahl, Marx, and so on.
Get real.
--Tim May
The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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