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1 total messages Started by Carl M. Kadie Sat, 15 Sep 1990 14:01

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Author: Carl M. Kadie
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 1990 14:01

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> 
> ********************************************************
> Mission of the EFF
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> 3.      to raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising
> from the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based
> communications media and, where necessary, support litigation in the
> public interest to preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment rights
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> within the realm of computing and telecommunications technology.


An important theory of law says that rights are inherent in people, thus
it does not make sense to "extent First Amendment rights".

I suggest the phrase be written:
"preserve and extend guarantees of First Amendment rights"



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Carl Kadie  --- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 === Today the NEA and alt.sex, tomorrow our public libraries ===

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