Re: On Internet and social responsibility

2001-09-17 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Bill Stewart wrote: > Jim, the First Amendment is a fine thing, but it's got very little > resemblence to twentieth-century US government practice :-) Actually it does. > Non-electronic speech and press gotten better treatment, mostly, > since we've gotten away from the da

Re: On Internet and social responsibility

2001-09-16 Thread Subcommander Bob
At 11:05 PM 9/14/01 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote: >Joe -- > >I'm not calling in question their right to publish; Then what is your point? >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 inv

RE: On Internet and social responsibility

2001-09-15 Thread measl
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > Personally, I have no problems with > US State telling me I can't do business with terrorists. Do you? Absolutely I do. I would have no problem with the USG placing people/countries/whatever on lists that I could use as a reference to make a *voluta

Re: On Internet and social responsibility

2001-09-15 Thread baptista
Vadim - I think in american we call it free speech. The content of the message is not the issue - it is the right to publish it and one's opinion which is the issue here guranteed by the U.S. constitution. regards joe On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Vadim Antonov wrote: > > > Found on a website hosted