From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:48:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Stop the presses -- Anti-terrorism bill not that bad
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At 07:38 PM 8/6/96 -0400, hallam@Etna.ai.mit.edu wrote:

>which such a claim was made. As for the UK laws, there is 
>practically no defense against a libel claim that one can
>file in court. There is absolutely no basis on which to 
>justify them. This is why the Singapore government uses them
>as a form of censorship.

There was a recent US appeals court decision in which an attempt to enforce
a UK libel judgment was rejected on First Amendment grounds.  The court
refused to allow the application of UK law here.

DCF