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1997-07-17 - Re: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship

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From: Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
To: David Formosa <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-17 19:22:44 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:22:44 +0800

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From: Doug Peterson <fnorky@geocities.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:22:44 +0800
To: David Formosa <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Subject: Re: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship
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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
> 
>         Now I'm clearly not a 'merkin and have little knowlig of how your
> system works but I would have thourt creating a sepreate marking sceam for
> 'news sites' and makeing it illegal to misslable would be creating a
> licenced press and therefore unconstutional.
> 
Well, in theory, requiring a licenced press would violate the 1st
Amendment.

Requiring any kind of rateing on a web page would seem to be the same as
requiring a newspaper to rate itself to protect someone from reading a
story that would be offensive to her/him. I don't beleave the newspaper
industry would stand by and let that happen to them.

> You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And The Make New Chains For
> Themselves? --Terry Pratchett
Hehe.  Who ever said people were smart?

-Doug

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