From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:01:28 +0800
To: Stephan Mohr <stephan.mohr@uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: free speach and the government
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Stephan Mohr writes:
 > Well, maybe my imagination isn't strong enough to make my point. But do
 > you fighter for free speech, in principle, think that nothing, really
 > nothing, shouldn't be prevented of being published? And by being
 > published, I mean published in the net, not at loompanics (who knows
 > loompanics?).

Well, if it's OK to publish via Loompanics I don't see what your point
is.  Anybody psychotic enough to poison a municipal water supply won't
be deterred by being denied on-line access to information.

Remember that far, far more people walk in and out of bookstores and
libraries every day than log into a computer connected to the
Internet.

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