CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

[Tim May]

At 12:57 AM -0400 9/14/00, Jodi Hoffman wrote:
>You are wrong to protect them without knowing what they're about, Jay. 
>Their motto is, "Sex before eight, or it's too late."  They are
>referring to grown men having sex with an under-eight year old little
>boy.  Surely you don't mean to suggest that a website promoting
>intercourse with a little boy should be protected speech, do you?

Of course it should be protected speech. As are Web sites promoting 
the growing and processing of marijuana and opium, Web sites 
promoting the killing of those who need killing, Web sites promoting 
espionage, draft dodging, and terrorism.

While the _activities_ being promoted or advocate may (or may not) be 
illegal, talking about them and advocating them is a *speech act*.

Cf. the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

--Tim May


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