🚀 go-pugleaf

Yves, B�rub� wrote:
> 
> In article <32950785.167EB0E7@insight.mcmaster.ca>, David Jones
> <djones@insight.mcmaster.ca> writes:
> 
> >Darrell A. Larose wrote:
> >>
> >> Well they can do something, they can get a warrant and seize equipment used
> >> in the commission of a crime. IGS may get their equipment back a year or two
> >> down the road after the case went through the Court, the appeals etc.
> >
> >Despite Darrell's assertion, police do not exercise their powers
> >whimsically.
> >
> It has been done and it will be done again... Just ask this sysop in Alberta
> who lost all of his equipment because he accepted a minor on his adult board
> (no illegal porno, i.e. beastiality or child porno), because this 16 year girl
> took her big sister driver's license and used it as a proof of age and signed a
> statement saying she was over 18.

Two comments.  First, there is a difference between an "adult board"
(i.e., BBS)
and in Internet Service Provider.  No ISP equipment has ever been seized
in Canada.

Second, plese tell us the name of the "sysop in Alberta", the nature of
the
charges, the outcome of the trial, etc.


> Actually, Darryl is right, we might have the Charter of Rights, but we don't
> have a true freedom of speech in Canada... 

Oh bullshit.  Even in the U.S. where their constitution says "Congress
shall pass
no law" abridging the right to freedom of expression, etc, they still
have laws
against obscenity, death threats, fraud, extortion, libel, etc.

-- djones