On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 04:00 AM, David Howe wrote:
If the state has the authority to classify words as "marketing" or "news" or "propaganda," all is basically lost. It is difficult to define a particular piece of data as one of the
at Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:21 PM, Tim May <timcmay@got.net> was seen to say: three as an abstract. however, you *can* make the distinction between marketing/propaganda and news (although it is difficult) and the concept of *not* deliberately lieing for political or financial gain isn't really a hard one.
I strongly disagree. And, fortunately, the First Amendment has none of the language you apparently think is in it, the stuff about "lying" and "political or financial gain." I acknowledge that things are quite different in the U.K., an adhocracy with virtually no codified rights, but we are quite clearly here talking about the U.S. situation, as evidenced in several of the messages. --Tim May "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11