Re: Oh No! Nazis on the Nets

["Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>]

Mike McNally says:
> Sorry, but if you have to go to some office and ensure them you're
> following the "rules of newspapers" or whatever, then that statement
> is incorrect.  I can this instant decide to print out thousands of
> copies of whatever I want, drive down to some public area, and start
> handing out my documents (or charging for them), all without a visit
> to a government office.  That's not illegal.  Only "pornographic"
> material is inherently illegal to distribute (and that irks me, I
> assure you) (though not because I'm interested in that line of work).

I'll remind you that the supreme court has held that text-only works
can not be held to be obscene. You can write anything you want,
including explicit descriptions of sodomizing dead children, and it
can not be censored.

Perry