Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Re: Censorship on the USENET
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 90 08:33:11 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov05.083311.5648@looking.on.ca>
References: <1990Nov01.064916.19218@looking.on.ca> <yTqyR1w163w@dogface> <1990Nov02.044428.2834@looking.on.ca> <1990Nov05.032855.21385@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Keywords: censorship

In article <1990Nov05.032855.21385@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>
>Mr. Templeton says that violence in the extended sense would mean "don't print
>it or we will put you in jail" However, if a radio/TV station airs something
>that would be found objectionable to the FCC, they probably would not be jailed,
>but maybe fined and/or shut down.
>                                   

That's a tough one.  In today's society, the philosophy used is that the
government owns the EM spectrun, and licences it out to various users, who
are, in effect, renting it, under terms defined by the FCC.

You may not agree with that system, but that is the way it is.  TV
stations do get 1st amendment protection in some ways, but in others,
such as showing NC-17 movies, they don't have it at all.

The hope is that the new world of electronic communications that this
group was created to talk about changes all this, by leaving the EM
spectrum for things it does well -- remote communications, mobile
communications etc.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
