At 4:54 PM -0700 6/20/00, Lizard wrote: >Matthew Gaylor wrote: >> >> =====> Beaver College bows to pressure and changes name >> Author: Connie Langland >> State: PA, Country: United States >> URL: >> http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/06/13/city/BEAVER13.htm >> Description: >> "In a closed-door meeting Friday, the college's board of trustees >> voted, 23-1, to abandon the troublesome title for ... what? >> 'Something else,' college spokesman Bill Avington said." They >> are tired of Internet filters refusing access to the college's >> sites. (6/13/00) >> >It seems to me this is AMPLE grounds for a defamation lawsuit. Pity the >college board chose to switch rather than fight. > >What about references to the mascot of MIT? More nonsense about "defamation lawsuits"? In a free society a person or group or company is free to give advice about sites to visit, restaurants to eat in, films to see or not see. If a filter company is dumb enough to have filters which reject on the word "beaver" alone, and if customers are dumb enough to use these filters, so be it. In a free society there is no grounds for either state intervention or lawsuit. (Remember, lawsuits hinge on "matters of law." There is no conceivable matter of law here.) --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
