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1994-02-11 - Re: Oh No! Nazis on the Nets

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From: Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <Pine.3.85.9402111433.A9243-0100000@cor.sos.sll.se>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-02-11 14:49:54 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 06:49:54 PST

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From: Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 06:49:54 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Oh No! Nazis on the Nets
In-Reply-To: <199402102100.QAA20373@snark>
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On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Untrue. In the U.S., I can start a newspaper without any licenses from
> the Government, and I can print anything I wish in that newspaper
> without fear of government prosecution.

That is truly amazing. Are there no laws against libel of groups such as 
ethnic or racial agitation? Can you write 'all niggers are pedophiles' 
or 'every single Catholic father of a teenage girl has proved to be 
incestuous' and get away with it?

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