The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship

Doug Peterson fnorky at geocities.com
Thu Jul 17 12:22:44 PDT 1997



? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
> 
>         Now I'm clearly not a 'merkin and have little knowlig of how your
> system works but I would have thourt creating a sepreate marking sceam for
> 'news sites' and makeing it illegal to misslable would be creating a
> licenced press and therefore unconstutional.
> 
Well, in theory, requiring a licenced press would violate the 1st
Amendment.

Requiring any kind of rateing on a web page would seem to be the same as
requiring a newspaper to rate itself to protect someone from reading a
story that would be offensive to her/him. I don't beleave the newspaper
industry would stand by and let that happen to them.

> You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And The Make New Chains For
> Themselves? --Terry Pratchett
Hehe.  Who ever said people were smart?

-Doug







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