In a message dated 9/19/2002 7:46:37 AM, chuck@topsail.org writes:
>That means *you* can't say anything may not be FoRKed or printed or
>whatever. You have the choice to ignore it
That's not what the First Amendment says at all. It says that Congress cannot
say what can't be FoRKed. FoRK can establish any rules it wants. Similarly,
The New York Times gets to choose what news IT thinks is "fit to print." If
the Times chose not to print anything about, say, Rosie O'Donnell, it would
be exercising its First Amendment rights, just as much as it would be if it
chose to print something Rosie O'Donnell doesn't like. The necessary
corollary of the freedom to say/publish what one wants is the freedom to
refuse to publish or say what one doesn't like. The alternative is a
state-controlled press that reprints government press releases and calls them
news.
The question of what is or is not FoRKed is (except for libel or other
specific exceptions) not a matter of law, but a matter of what the
"publisher" (if any) decides or the "community" (if any) negotiates or does
as a matter of custom.
For my part, I'd rather people didn't use FoRK as a place in which to dump an
expression of their political beliefs.
Tom

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