[atlarge-discuss] The Censorship card? See: Washington state loses battle to censor Justicefiles.org

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

All fellow members, former members of the DNSO GA, and other interested
Parties,

  Recently on this forum and others ICANN related,  there has
been some/much  discussion or interest in Censorship.  As one
that opposes Censorship in any of it's ugly and malignant forms
perhaps the following would be of interest and worth consideration
before attempting to impose any form of censorship...

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Subject:
        FC: Washington state loses battle to censor Justicefiles.org
   Date:
        Tue, 27 May 2003 13:38:09 -0400
   From:  Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
     To:   politech@politechbot.com




Elena's message forwarded with permission. Also see:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/123525_info24.html
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=justicefiles
http://www.politechbot.com/kirkland/

-Declan

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Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:26:52 -0700
To: declan@well.com
From: Elena Luisa Garella <garella@mindspring.com>

Declan-- the "anti-bill sheehan law" was struck down by Federal
District
Court Judge Cougenour yesterday.

Bill Sheehan was forced to pull down his website, which featured
criticism of police, with their names, home addresses, SSNs, etc,
after RCW 6.24.680-700 was passed last year.  The law created
liability for releasing the personal identifying information of police
and court-related personnel "with the intent to harm or intimidate."
(Of course, you could still release it for profit, or to praise the
cops).

The Court handed down a very good pro-internet, pro-free speech
ruling.  Guess what?  "Thought-policing is not a compelling state
interest recognized by the First Amendment."  Hallelujah.

No electronic copy of the decision is available.  If you want me to
fax it to you, please fax your number.

Elena Garella
Attorney for William Sheehan
927 N Northlake Way, Ste 301
Seattle, WA 98103





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