Hey! Look over there! A duck with a pancake on its head! On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 16:09, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, August 06, 2004 7:37 AM -0600 "Christopher A. Williams" > <chrisw01@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 1) The US Government does not own everything these systems run on. > > Companies own their own property. > > True ownership means control. You don't control it if the government can > shut you down (eg. through heavy fines) for highly subjective activity. > > > there are some well-known limitations (like > > shouting "Fire!" in the theatre when there is no fire). > > That one always comes up. Recognize that that's another case of private > control of speech, and the theater is justified in controlling what's said > there. > > The problem arises when the government can tell a private company what > information (ie. imagery, photons, bits) is not permitted to be > disseminated, because it offends some segment of the populace with > primitive mores that the company might employ. > > > You, of course, have the right to not fly American Airlines if you don't > > like this policy and fly Hooter's Air instead. > > I do wonder how Hooters manages to evade these laws. Probably just a matter > of time, though. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
