1996-03-04 - Re: Electronic Freedom press release

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From: sj@io.com (Steve Jackson)
To: putsch@usa.pipeline.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-03-04 02:09:55 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:09:55 +0800

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From: sj@io.com (Steve Jackson)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:09:55 +0800
To: putsch@usa.pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Electronic Freedom press release
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At 1:50 PM 3/3/96, LibertyWMA@aol.com wrote:

(quoting George Phillies)
> When the Secret
>Service raided Steve Jackson Games to suppress publication of 'Hacker' I
>immediately wrote Congress to protest.

Serious distortion of the facts. "Hacker" was published as a reaction to
the raid; it was not the target of the raid. The book you are thinking
about is GURPS CYBERPUNK, which the Secret Service encouraged us to believe
was the object of the raid, but testimony at the trial indicated that that
was not the case. The SS was ignorantly indifferent to free speech and
publisher's rights, rather than taking direct aim at them. See
www.io.com/SS/ for more information.

Our case was a victory, but if it is cited in support of irrelevancies, it
has no more meaning than if it is forgotten completely.


Steve Jackson, sj@io.com - this will do till I fix my .sig file . . .







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