From: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 08:18:11 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Enquirer Story on Clipper
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At 06:55 AM 8/1/94 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:

>Course the 1st Amend. was specifically designed to eliminate the nasty
>British habit of licensing newspapers.  Driving licenses weren't mentioned
>in that document.  Have their been any licensing proposals for the
>Information Stupor Highway yet?  If the Supremes will let me burn a cross,
>isn't it likely that they will let me log on?

To further answer myself...

Note that we have had telephones for more than 100 years without any
licensing of telephones in this country.  In fact, the telephone companies
were prohibited from denying service save on a number of narrow grounds.
And that was in a much tighter regulatory environment than seems destined to
exist in the future.

DCF

"License Communists -- not Workstations"