NYTimes oped: Federal laws better than censorware

Andrew Shapiro ashapiro at interport.net
Mon Dec 8 22:35:28 PST 1997



At 10:37 PM -0500 12/7/97, Mike Godwin wrote:
>At 12:00 PM -0500 12/4/97, Andrew Shapiro wrote:
>>That's not what I said.  I'm not in favor of censorship and I oppose any
>>attempt to *criminalize* 'indecent' speech.  But criminalize does not =
>>regulate.
>
>Perhaps it is a flaw in my legal education, but I was always taught that
>criminal laws were a form of regulation.

What I meant to say, Mike, was that not all regulation, obviously, is criminal.

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