Boris Rheinhart

Comment Threads

• Greg. Tingey commented on Cameron v Churchill
  Charlie @ 77 No comprende senor. Is that link a joke? [ It certainly looks like an elaborate in-joke ] What the f* is supposed to be going on? El @ 81 Err - I think Dirk lives in Bedfordshire, somewhere ( i.e. in the UK ) 100kindsofrain@ 82 Er.. Proof: if person A can exclude person B from society, then, by the first law, person B also has that right and there is no society only a collection of individuals. You just, effectively, quoted the madwoman from Grantham. Yuck!...
• Antonia T Tiger commented on Cameron v Churchill
  Greg, that link Charlies gives is to a contemporary account of the Amateur Action BBS case, which happened in 1994. At that time, the US law on obscenity was based on the idea that local standards mattered. And the Amateur Action BBS, based in California, was charged in a Tennessee court, over material which was downloaded by a Postal Inspector. I was using Fidonet at the time....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Cameron v Churchill
  ATT Thanks So, As far as I can make out a Bulletin Board society (?) was deliberately targeted from out-of-state by ultra-puritans (presumably christian nutters in this case) What happened in the end? My web-search turned up the original results, but follow-ups were thin on the ground....
• Charlie Stross commented on Cameron v Churchill
  What happened in the end? They were found guilty and did prison time in Tennessee. (That was my point. Legal in one jurisdiction, criminal in another, and the interstate commerce clause -- because they were selling porn videos via mail order -- meant that a blue-nose from out of state could go after them.)...
• Brett Dunbar commented on Cameron v Churchill
  It's rather stronger than that. Exceptions to the general right to freedom of expression can only be made on the rather limited range of grounds given in clause 2, and they must be set out explicitly in law. And even then the court can still throw it out if it deems that it isn't "necessary in a democratic society". This gives the court the power to negate pretty much any law it finds seriously objectionable....