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Subject: Re: More Mog-Ur BBS information
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:23:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:23:18 1984
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     There is not now, nor should there be, any legal obligation of the
operator of a bulletin board, electronic or otherwise, to censor the material
placed there.  This should be viewed as a First Amendment issue.  The nation 
has survived the publication of the Pentagon Papers and publication of the 
details of how to build an H-bomb.  The nation will survive the phone phreaks.
     The use of government censorship to protect a private company's billing 
information is a gross abuse of government authority.  Where harm can be shown,
there are legal remedies after the fact.  But prior restraint is not to be 
borne.
     Read up on the history of censorship before replying.

						John Nagle