🚀 go-pugleaf

jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:

>In article <1992Oct29.210436.19724@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom (David Sternlight) writes:
>>The Feds have the right to regulate
>>communications under the law.

>Do you mean the following?

>   1st Amendment
>   Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of 
>   religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging 
>   the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the 
>   people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for 
>   a redress of grievances. 

>//Jyrki

	In the US, the federal government can regulate most forms
	of communication in as much as it does not limit ones
	rights under the First Amendment.  The government derives this
	right to regulate from the Constitutional obligation to
	regulate interstate commerce.  Examples of this regulation
	include the Federal Communications Commission.

	As a relevant example:  Federal law specifically prohibits
	encrypted communications by amateur radio (HAM).


        +------------------------------+---------------------------+
        | David Aucsmith       N7VKC   | Phone:      (503)578-4436 |
        | Mgr. Trusted Systems Devel.  | Fax:        (503)627-9890 |
        | Sequent Computer Systems     |                           |
        | 15450 SW Koll Parkway        | Telex:      296559        |
        | Beaverton, OR 97006-6063     |                           |
        +------------------------------+---------------------------+
        | email:                       | I must hurry,             |
        | awk@sequent.com              | for there they go         |
        | uunet!ogicse!awk             | and I am their leader.    |
        | Aucsmith@dockmaster.ncsc.mil | (unknown mountaineer)     |
        +------------------------------+---------------------------+