1997-11-19 - Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@invweb.net>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Message Hash: 55b9edea49bbcb9ce6a8bc8ebcd2b278ceb6ef46d7de8e32442aaea581159c55
Message ID: <199711190457.XAA15353@users.invweb.net>
Reply To: <v03102809b0980bf30a9e@[207.167.93.63]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-11-19 05:09:06 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:09:06 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:09:06 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
In-Reply-To: <v03102809b0980bf30a9e@[207.167.93.63]>
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In <v03102809b0980bf30a9e@[207.167.93.63]>, on 11/18/97 
   at 08:25 PM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:

>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.

Well you forget Tim that here in the "Land of the Freeh" the Constitution
is only a minor incovienance to ObPCVoteBuying by the criminals in DC.

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