Re: new "obscenity" law on the net
[Ben sent this to rms at 'Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:32:00 -0700']; "Ben A. Mesander" <ben@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:
Just curious - will the new law outlawing obscenity on the net in the us cause you to make changes to some of the comments in the emacs source code?
Some weeks ago, Lars and Richard went through the Gnus source and removed 'fuck' two times and 'fucking' one time (if I didn't get it all wrong). I wonder if that's your fault. /pp. -- anum meum aperies, asperge me spermate tuo et inquinabor url; http://pfawww.pp.se/~pp/ email; <pp@pfawww.pp.se> phone#'s; work/home/fax: +46 (0)18 100899/247473/103737
"Ben A. Mesander" <ben@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:
Just curious - will the new law outlawing obscenity on the net in the us cause you to make changes to some of the comments in the emacs source code?
Some weeks ago, Lars and Richard went through the Gnus source and removed 'fuck' two times and 'fucking' one time (if I didn't get it all wrong). I wonder if that's your fault.
what if I had written some code which doesn't function properly unless certain indecent words were in the source code and then put the code on the WWW :). Would that violate Congress' Despotic Action? What if when you looked at the text on a 80 column screen and because of line wrap it said something indecent otherwise it was unintelligible? It seems that no reasonable person would go after a person for that but then aren't we talking about selective enforcement. F T C U H D C E A K
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