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Re: Nothing like prior constraint. No courts just NetSol!!! Internet company suspends politician's website over Qur'an film
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:51:02 -0700
________________________________________ From: DV Henkel-Wallace [gumby () henkel-wallace org] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 10:06 PM To: David Farber; steve () shinkuro com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Nothing like prior constraint. No courts just NetSol!!! Internet company suspends politician's website over Qur'an film Dave, Steve raises a fascinating issue. Wilders' site pretty clearly falls into USA's definition of "allowable speech", as do his other examples (The nazis are the famous ones but yes, even advocacy of the infamous "CP" is "protected speech") -- but there are plenty of inverse examples (the swiss case that it is not illegal to violate another country's tax laws or, dare I say it, advocacy of the Netherlands' cderiminalisation of drugs). More interestingly: all this is moot in that Netsol is a private entity so there isn't a protection of free speech issue (in the USA) at all -- they can make their own rules, and clearly do. -d
From: Steve Crocker [steve () shinkuro com] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:17 PM To: David Farber Cc: Steve Crocker; ip Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Nothing like prior constraint. No courts just NetSol!!! Internet company suspends politician's website over Qur'an film Of course, protection of expression regarding the Qur'an is only one part of the overall equation. Sale of Nazi memorabilia, child porn, phishing and other phenomena also draw attention and create calls for controlling content or finding out the identity of the purveyor. Your formula of limiting action unless it violates the laws of the home country doesn't address the issue of significant differences among countries.
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