Slashdot | Michigan May Outlaw Anonymity Online

[Aimee Farr]

Mr. Choate said: " http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/11/1829225.shtml ."

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First, I like to think the 1st Amendment includes the right to _receive_
anonymously, as well as send/publish -- which implicates anonymous digital
cash. Second, sounds like _Lamont_, but it's content-neutral on its face. In
_Lamont_ the postal tried to make people "sign up" in order to receive
communist propaganda. Not surprisingly, people hesitated....
LAMONT @
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=381
&page=301.

They will argue the statute is content-neutral, aimed at secondary effects,
and withstands intermediate scrutiny....
RENTON @
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=475
&page=41

Regarding ID requirements and ID as "content"....
MILLER @ http://www.aclu.org/court/aclugavmiller.html
MCINTYRE @ http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/free_speech/mcintyre.txt

If they can't get in the constitutional front door, there's always the back.
<epiphany>... that would be why "cypherpunks write code;" what Mr. Back was
trying to impart to me. Ah.

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