> From: Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> The Fool wrote:
> 
> >This is by far one of the single biggest attacks on freedom of speech
> >that has ever been carried out.  Any American who exercises their
first
> >amendment rights is now subject to Australian law.  This sets
Australian
> >law higher than even the U.S. constitution, and makes all Americans
> >slaves to the censorship laws the predominate in Australia.
> >
> >Anything I say online may now be prosecuted in Australia under
Australian
> >law.  I doubt it will be much longer before all countries have
declared
> >their laws sovereign over the U.S. constitution.  How long will it be
> >before Saudi Arabia tries to prosecute me for saying 'Mohammed was a
> >pedophile who was inspired with his lips around Satans penis'?
> >
> 
> What about posession of child pornography?  Do you think that it should
be 
> given the same consideration?  I understand that it's a different
situation, 
> but you can be prosecuted in this country (and entirely, completely
rightly 
> so) for possessing pornographic materials that were neither
manufactured by 
> you or in your country of origin.
> 
> There are obviously differences.

You mean transmission or 'speech' and not possession.  Child Porn is
evidence of a crime.  The supreme court struct down the 'Virtual Child
porn' act a few months ago.

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