Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP (jbn ) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: More Mog-Ur BBS information Message-ID: <471@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:23:18 EDT Article-I.D.: wdl1.471 Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:23:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 08:56:43 EDT Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-1272400:wdl1:1400010:000:702 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Oct 15 12:58:00 1984 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