Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sat Sep 8 09:02:04 PDT 2001




On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:38:46AM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> > My point was that this is a natural outgrowth of existing child porn and
> > obscenity laws, and if you're upset at this, you should naturally be upset
> > at the entire framework.
> 
> Then your point is invalid. Simply because the application or extension of
> something is harmful or undesirable doesn't map to the entire framework
> being bad.
> 
> It's a common failing of C-A-C-L based theologies.
> 
> You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Jim,
I don't understand what you mean. Perhaps you can quote the relevant
section of the U.S. Constitution you're talking about, and follow it
up with some Slashdot URLs? Some week-old wire service articles would
be a big help too.

Your fan,
Declan





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