[91608] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYTimes oped: Federal laws better than censorware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Shapiro)
Tue Dec 9 01:56:19 1997
In-Reply-To: <v0311070db0b11a02f203@[153.35.9.65]>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:55:29 -0500
To: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@well.com>
From: Andrew Shapiro <ashapiro@interport.net>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com, solveig@cato.org, rcr@dc1.hhlaw.com
Reply-To: Andrew Shapiro <ashapiro@interport.net>
At 10:37 PM -0500 12/7/97, Mike Godwin wrote:
>At 12:00 PM -0500 12/4/97, Andrew Shapiro wrote:
>>That's not what I said. I'm not in favor of censorship and I oppose any
>>attempt to *criminalize* 'indecent' speech. But criminalize does not =
>>regulate.
>
>Perhaps it is a flaw in my legal education, but I was always taught that
>criminal laws were a form of regulation.
What I meant to say, Mike, was that not all regulation, obviously, is criminal.
A.
