At 7:03 AM -0700 6/4/97, Ryan Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Jeremey Barrett wrote:
Well I went and got a PCS phone (Ericsson), and was pilfering through the manual, and came across this amusing text in the "Operating procedures" section of the "Guidelines for Safe and Efficient Use": [snip] o Use of profane, indecent, or obscene language while using your phone. Joy. More laws to break.
I believe this has been true about your regular phone line for years as well. It's unenforceable, and as a practical matter the FCC isn't going to care, *EVER* about it.
I notice that a *lot* of just such "unenforceable and they don't really care" things got added to the laundry list of thought crimes in Jim Bell's case. Lots of laws ensure that citizen-units are always guilty of something. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."