[UA] Spelling America with a K, eh?

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

And although you can sell "The Anarchist's Cookbook,"
thanks to Anthony Comstock, you can't send it through
the mail.  Well, the post office can refuse to deliver
it, anyway.  There's lots of stuff you can't send
through the mail, not legally, anyway, not without a
chance of it being intercepted.  You might even be
arrested or sued.  Court cases have tried to apply
some of the same laws which apply to the mai service
to the internet.

--- Timothy Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cassady Toles" <Con_Job at excite.com>

> >   I thought that some 'subversive' titles like
> "The Anarchist's Cookbook"
> > were
> >   illegal to sell in the US?
> >
> > That's an urban myth.  It is legal to sell books
> about anything in this
> > country unless they commit slander, then it's
> still legal but you may have
> > to proove your actions in court.
> 
> 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,"


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
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