--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 10/9/05 9:31 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > --- Alex Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Isn't this an old post? Like two years ago? > >> > >> Yep. > >> > >>> Who originally posted this? > >> > >> An anonymous person from an IP address that looks up > >> as belonging to Kinkos. > >> > >> Alex > > > > Even if it's true, it's nasty stuff. > > The reason it bothers me is that some of those women are friends of mine and > I find it hard to believe they would have had affairs with Bevan. So for > someone to anonymously accuse them of having done so is a cheap shot.
************ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/technology/10link.html "There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it," said Jonathan Zittrain, who holds the chair in Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University and is a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. "But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers." In other words, without robust protections for anonymity, which the Supreme Court called "a shield from the tyranny of the majority" in the 1995 case McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, just the threat of lawsuits would have a chilling effect on free speech. And it is worth noting, too, that the Delaware court reaffirmed the notion that however distasteful - even stupid - one might find the "speech" on Internet blogs and bulletin boards, at least some of it belongs to an "honorable tradition of advocacy and dissent.".... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
