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Wait a minute ...

[sorry folks -- no LONG quotes of other's messages quoting other's
 messages ad infinitum -- maybe you'll all emulate me? :-) ]

Driving is a privilege?  Posting articles is a privilege?  That's a 
very interesting point:  who decided it was a privilege?  

I mean, _someone_ had to start all this "news" initially, right?  Now
it's *everywhere* on a *lot* of systems.  Ditto for vehicles:  initially
they were very rare and a novelty.  E-mail and "news" is becoming 
*very* common.

So, who decides to whom the privilege is given?  Do individual 
systems administrators get to decide what they think the users of
their system need to read?  Is it a higher level decision?  Should
the *government* scan _all_ the incoming "news" to see if the views
violate federal law before the "news" is forwarded to federally funded 
educational facilities?

All the news that's fit to print?

See the problem?  This is a brand new area that hasn't been subjected
to any kind of legal scrutiny ...


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