Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Aug 6 20:34:50 UTC 2004
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 at privatei.com> 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.
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Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>
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