Ninth Circuit ruling re webpage threats

[David Honig]

At 08:46 AM 3/29/01 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
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>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 keyser-soze at hushmail.com wrote:
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>>I think Judge Kozinski's ruling can also be easily read in support of free 
>>speech by operator and participants in anonymous betting pools with
political 
>>interests.
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>I think you are wrong.  The neuremberg files website didn't *create* 
>a motive for killing.  Assassination Politics would.  That is a key 
>difference.
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>				Bear

Well the celebrity deathwatch site provides material rewards for the best
'guesses', and has been running unchallenged for some time.  The site
itself pays you IIRC
---whereas an AP machine is more an EBay, merely supporting its clients'
content.  I think the deathwatch site also requires that winners had
nothing to do with the deaths they predicted ---though they have no such
investigatory capacities.

Creating motives? The politicians do that themselves.  And financial reward
for guessing
is hardly illegal ---in fact, the State runs the gambling around here.  But
monopoly
is unnatural, no? 

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mind if thoughts are secure only when they are pent up." -- US Justice
William O. Douglas