At 1:19 PM -0400 12/31/97, The Sheriff wrote:
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My cancelled Usenet article offered a reward for killing the spammer:
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This is fucking censorship! I'm putting the notice of the CAUCE reward on my web home page at [snip], right next to the pictures of the pre-teen kids screwing. Fuck you, Zorch, you're next after C, P, and G Lewis.
Ok, tell you what.
Let's post YOUR address, YOUR phone number, and that of YOUR family. We'll post that information to every newsgroup and mailing list we can think of. We'll offer a $50,000 AMERICAN reward for the quick extermination of you and your family. And if some kook takes us up on it, we might even be good enough to warn you.
It's not censorship, you idiot. The dude who clipped out your post was trying to keep some fucking psycho from killing somebody else for some imagined (or not, who knows?) $50k reward.
It's common sense, in other words.
Here, here. Making threatening statements or calling for someone's harm are not to be tolerated. However, predicting someone's continued good health (as a psychic) and wagering on that prediction against other (psychics) who have different predictions is a contest of skill and not a threat or illegal in any way, even if these wagers, psychics and payouts are anonymous. --Steve