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Re: Detweiler clone at WS



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In list.cypherpunks, [email protected] (Duncan Frissell) writes:

> R.>The down side was that licensing was mentioned as the first recourse
> R.>from the state.  When we complained of the financial hit, the talk
> R.>turned to registration.  But the sense was clearly toward proactive
> R.>state control.
> 
> Are these people mentally retarded or what.

I'm not qualified to answer that.  :)

> A BBS is a publication.  The
> 1st Amendment was specifically written to outlaw the British licensing of 
> publications.  No risk.

Until some case law comes about that recognizes this, It Just Ain't So.
Right now, electronic publishing isn't recognized by the courts as
publishing (because we don't kill trees, I suppose).
- -- 
Roy M. Silvernail  []  [email protected]

                          It's just this little chromium switch.......

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