[UA] America by Prime Time (was Greetings)

[Cassady Toles]

On Wed, 16 May 2001 22:20:34 -0500, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
 
  Not entirely true.  There's some bozo-no-no's, like child pornography,
and,
  oddly enough, anything that would assist you in cracking digital
encryption
  (a la the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which threatens to blow the
  concept of fair use out of the law books).  Now, on a LOCAL level, there's
  what's called "community standards," which

You're right about kiddy porn.  I didn't know about the digital encryption
thing.  I'll have to look that up.

  can make possession with intent
  to distribute of Mad Magazine a hanging offense.
  
 
First, no it can't be a hanging offense, creul and unusual punishment. 
Secondly, every time one of those laws is challenged in court, the suit has
won and the law stricken that I know of.  Larry Flynt was famous for doing
it, and Bill Gaines did it a couple of times...

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