RE: Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2

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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>



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