Re: Censorship protest relevance (was: Re: Continuation of my previous mail)

2021-05-15 Thread DJ Delorie
shulie writes: > That is MOSTLY, but not completely true.  The Phone company, for > example, can not disconnect you because your a communist. That's an example of the contract thing I mentioned. They entered into a contract where, in exchange for a temporary monopoly, they agreed to operate

Re: Censorship protest relevance (was: Re: Continuation of my previous mail)

2021-05-14 Thread shulie
On 5/13/21 1:56 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > There > is no such thing as a "free speech right" in the USA *outside of* the > laws themselves. That is MOSTLY, but not completely true.  The Phone company, for example, can not disconnect you because your a communist.

Re: Censorship protest relevance (was: Re: Continuation of my previous mail)

2021-05-13 Thread DJ Delorie
Jacob Bachmeyer writes: > Since GNU is based in USA, is this particular protest obsolete, as any > such censorship applied to us would be clearly unconstitutional, For those outside the USA (and probably many inside too ;) ... The USA laws don't work that way; the first amendment *only*

Re: Censorship protest relevance (was: Re: Continuation of my previous mail)

2021-05-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Il 13/05/21 04:32, Jacob Bachmeyer ha scritto: Since GNU is based in USA, is this particular protest obsolete, as any such censorship applied to us would be clearly unconstitutional, or are there still possible risks here? In short, is this protest still accurate or can we now confidently say

Censorship protest relevance (was: Re: Continuation of my previous mail)

2021-05-12 Thread Jacob Bachmeyer
Jean Louis wrote: -@c Put in by rms. Don't remove. -@cartouche -@strong{Future Change Warning:} Proposed Federal censorship regulations -may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of -calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an -acceptable way