"Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com> writes:
Hadmut Danisch says:
Whether *everyone* has the right to produce a newspaper and whether you can print *everything* into a newspaper, are two different things.
Ultimately they aren't.
Can we allow to print everything into a newspaper? No, not everything.
In the U.S., I can print everything in a newspaper. The only exception that has any significance is that if I print a story that deliberately (note the word deliberately) lies about someone with intent to cause them harm, they can sue me. However, the government cannot in and of itself intervene in the content of newspapers.
That's simply not true, Perry. The government *has* intervened a number of times. Read Bruce Sterling's recent book -- he cites the example of how a magazine in th late-70's or early-80's printed John Draper's schematics on how to use a blue box to rip off AT&T. AT&T sued, and won. The magazine was pulled...
Indeed, but this is in contrast to the U.S., where you are allowed to say anything you like.
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