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Article #130Re: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!
From: Justin Wells
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 20:51
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 20:51
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In article <lcooper.766162623@kaiwan>, Larry Cooper <lcooper@kaiwan.com> wrote: >In <Co4vBv.IEs@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) writes: >>What would happen if Canadians, and other non-Americans, started >>posting death threats to president@whitehouse.gov? Clearly this is in >>violation of *American* law.. probably an outright death threat is in >>violation of Canadian law.. but there's no doubt some middle ground >>threat which is fine under Canadian law (what's a president?) but >>totally illegal in the U.S.A.? > >Seems to me that there is a world of difference between making information >freely available over the Internet and mailing a death threat to someone no >matter how it is sent. What's the difference? By publishing details of the trial you're breaking Canadian law, by threatening the president I would be breaking American law. Do you see a difference? I don't see a difference. Justin -- <rjwells@uwaterloo.ca, stem@io.org, stem@sizone.pci.on.ca> (Justin Wells) "Knowledge for its own sake" -- that is the last snare of morality: with that one becomes completely entangled in it once more. - F. Nietzsche
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