On Internet and social responsibility

[Bill Stewart]

Jim, the First Amendment is a fine thing, but it's got very little
resemblence to twentieth-century US government practice :-)
Non-electronic speech and press gotten better treatment, mostly,
since we've gotten away from the days of the Schenk case,
but electronic speech has been heavily censored and controlled,
particularly under the Roosevelt-inspired monopoly over the airwaves.

But even the writers of that pro-central-government batch of
political compromise called the US Constitution appear to have
considered laws against fraud, slander, and libel to be reasonable
grounds for laws, and in some cases for duels.

At 09:53 AM 09/15/2001 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>
> > I'm not calling in question their right to publish; what i'm saying that
> > this crap was going on for years, and nobody cared.
> >
> > BTW, if you look at the First Ammendment protections closer, they are not
> > guaranteeing absolute right of free speech.  Learn the American law before
> > you invoke it to defend your point of view.
>
>Bullshit, you fucking anti-American revisionist....
>
>                                  Amendment I
>
>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
>prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
>or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
>petition the Government for a redress of grievances.