At 08:46 AM 3/29/01 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 keyser-soze@hushmail.com wrote:
I think Judge Kozinski's ruling can also be easily read in support of free speech by operator and participants in anonymous betting pools with
political
interests.
I think you are wrong. The neuremberg files website didn't *create* a motive for killing. Assassination Politics would. That is a key difference.
Bear
Well the celebrity deathwatch site provides material rewards for the best 'guesses', and has been running unchallenged for some time. The site itself pays you IIRC ---whereas an AP machine is more an EBay, merely supporting its clients' content. I think the deathwatch site also requires that winners had nothing to do with the deaths they predicted ---though they have no such investigatory capacities. Creating motives? The politicians do that themselves. And financial reward for guessing is hardly illegal ---in fact, the State runs the gambling around here. But monopoly is unnatural, no? ...... "Advocacy and belief go hand in hand. For there can be no true freedom of mind if thoughts are secure only when they are pent up." -- US Justice William O. Douglas