on 11/12/02 5:43 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:41 AM > Subject: Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court > > >> on 11/12/02 12:54 pm, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> Has there ever been free speech in publishing? >> >> No. > > Why doesn't the Pentagon Paper ruling count as free speech for publishing?
That would be an instance of free speech. I took the rhetorical question to mean 'there never been free speech in publishing generally', to which specific instances of free speech are not a counterexample. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time. Just look at Windows. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l