A lawsuit against the atheist would not be effective and could result in a countersuit for abuse of process. -Declan Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 15-Feb-96 Re: Spin Control Alert (LI .. by "E. ALLEN SMITH"@mbcl.ru
How about a lawsuit by the atheist against the site? Since the CDA claims that such material is harmful, and tries to make it illegal, such a lawsuit would appear to have grounds - especially if the atheist has a child that is "surfing the Net." Now, they're unlikely to _win_, but the atheist can cost them some money _and_ make the CDA look stupid. If I were in the American Atheist Foundation or some such, I'd do such a lawsuit against a Christian Right organization that had supported the CDA. Of course, the selective enforcement will be a good argument in favor of the law being unconstitutional. Crypto relevance? Criminal laws aren't the only things that a crypto-anarchial system will make less effective. Civil lawsuits
(under things
like libel) also will be. I'd call this a good change.