[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
re: Fight-Censorship Dispatch #12: CDA deathwatch, copyright update
Fred Cherry is a prize example of your lonely pamphleteer, though he's one
who's just plain wacky.
Note that calling someone wacky or a loon does not equate to saying they
should be silenced. I've said many times that Cherry should not be muzzled
on Usenet.
-Declan
For more info on Fred Cherry and his lawsuit, check out my
#5 fight-censorship dispatch at:
http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2115
On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Martin Minow wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 11:16:49 -0700
> From: Martin Minow <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: re: Fight-Censorship Dispatch #12: CDA deathwatch, copyright update
>
> In "Fight-Censorship Dispatch #12", Declan McCullagh writes about
> "everybody's favorite net.loon," Fred Cherry:
>
> >Whatever you think of Cherry's antics, you gotta grant him one thing
> > not many people have the balls to demand that a Federal court uphold
> > their right to flame.
>
> I suspect that Tom Payne would -- Cherry seems from your description
> to be a prize example of "the lonely pamphleteer."
>
> It would be interesting to know what Nat Hentoff thinks of Fred.
>
> Martin Minow
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>