From: "Z.B." <zachb@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 03:41:27 +0800
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Subject: Re: Fed appellate judge remarks re anonymity, free speech on the net
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Greg Broiles wrote:

> At 09:24 PM 9/12/96 -0700, zachb@netcom.com wrote:
> >> (Also in today's news, the 9th Circuit upheld a CA statute forbidding sales
> >> of material considered "harmful to minors" from vending machines.) 
> >
> >Even if this statute is meant only to apply to cigarette machines, which 
> >would seem to be the case given all of the anti-cig stuff going on now,
> >what good will it do?
> 
> Whoops. Sorry. Wrong context. What I should have said was "the 9th Circuit
> upheld a CA statute forbidding sales of *printed* material considered
> 'harmful to minors' from unsupervised vending machines". The publication(s)
>

It's still mostly the same thing.  I've never seen the type of machine 
that you're talking about, and I don't think anyone would be dumb enough 
to install one in a store that is near a school, or frequented my 
minors.  This law just does not seem like a very good idea.



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