Re: Using ad serving software for censoring news stories

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 8/29/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> The reason you have a First Amendment, is that you didn't get it right
> first time around. We've had freedom of speech in the UK since deep in the
> mists of time.
>
> It's the law in the UK, that you mustn't speculate on the facts of a
> trial, in advance of the trial, because that leads to an unfair trial.
> So, for example, when the Home Secretary said "We've caught the main
> plotters", he was skating on *very* thin ice. He should have said "We have
> arrested several people who are alleged to be plotting ..."
>
> You can't say "The were plotting to blow up" because that's assuming their
> guilt, and in the UK, there's a presumption of innocence until proven
> guilty in a court of law. Newspapers can't assume guilt.
>
> Surely you have a similar law in the USA?


You want the good 'ol US of A to go without Joan-Benet/Lacy
Peterson/OJ Simpson/Michael Jackson trials?

Then I would have nothing to watch except Judge Judy re-runs.

That suggestion is tantamount to terrorism!

-JP<who just out Dr Solly on the airlines no-fly list>
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