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From: markprobert17@lumbercartel.com
"toto" wrote in message
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> On 19 Oct 2003 00:36:40 GMT, "Magi D. Shepley"
> wrote:
>
> >I don't have any idea who Toretzky is. I just know that you're
> >advocating removing the protections of the First Amendment. I don't
> >like that and I don't support it.
> >I don't clear anybody. I do stand up for what I believe in.
> >There are a lot more problems in this country than "bomb instructions on
> >a website".
> >
> >Magi
>
> She posted the guy's website. He's a CMU prof in the computer
> science department. And, btw, the bomb instructions are apparently
> part of a mirror for a website that the government wants taken down.
> As you may or may not know, computer people who believe in freedom
> of speech quite often will set up mirror sites when a website is
> censored by the government or by a particular webhost. In this case,
> I find it quite interesting that Touretsky is mirroring Raise the
> Fist's website which is the site of the man being prosecuted under
> the act I quoted earlier for you.
>
> I think it is fascinating that the mirror is quite legal, but Austin's
> site was not. David Touretsky is essentially preserving the evidence
> for the public.
>
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/raisethefist/
>
>
> At any rate, here is his website:
>
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/
>
> The part of it Barbara objects to is the exposure of Scientology
> and the pornographic humor about that.
As usual, Dorothy gets it right.
Touretsky is really kick-butt on the 1st Amendment. We need more like him
(Barbara's shorts just got knotted!).
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