Re: Oh No! Nazis on the Nets

["Jon 'Iain' Boone" <boone@psc.edu>]

"Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>  writes:
>
> 
> Hadmut Danisch says:
> > 
> > Whether *everyone* has the right to produce a newspaper and
> > whether you can print *everything* into a newspaper, are two different
> > things.
> 
> Ultimately they aren't.
> 
> > Can we allow to print everything into a newspaper? No, not
> > everything.
> 
> In the U.S., I can print everything in a newspaper. The only exception
> that has any significance is that if I print a story that deliberately
> (note the word deliberately) lies about someone with intent to cause
> them harm, they can sue me. However, the government cannot in and of
> itself intervene in the content of newspapers.

  That's simply not true, Perry.  The government *has* intervened a number
  of times.  Read Bruce Sterling's recent book -- he cites the example of
  how a magazine in th late-70's or early-80's printed John Draper's 
  schematics on how to use a blue box to rip off AT&T.  AT&T sued, and won.
  The magazine was pulled...

> Indeed, but this is in contrast to the U.S., where you are allowed to
> say anything you like.

  Nope, you're not.  You're allowed to say most things...

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