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Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?

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From: Wakko Warner
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3s44sa$jfp@crl3.crl.com>, ivler@crl.com (J.M. Ivler) writes:
>Wakko Warner (cook@rzdisk.enet.qntm.com) wrote:
>: 	If you have something against banning smut on the Internet I
>: 	have to ask, why? Go to the combat zone. Banning bad
>: 	language? Good. Maybe it will clean up some of the filth
>: 	around here.
>
>So you would have no problem with someone setting up a canclebot to 
>eliminate all your posts? Once you start burning books and taking away 
>the freedom of speech, you have started down the road to true tyranny. 
>NOTHING is ever worth the elimination of the freedom to speak. That is 
>why that is the 1st Amendment!

	We have freedom of speech, yet you cannot yell fire in a crowded
	theatre, you cannot post death threats, and you cannot libel
	and/or slander someone without consequences.

	
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From: cook@rzdisk.enet.qntm.com (Wakko Warner)
Subject: Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?
Date: 1995/06/19
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