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Re: Usenet forgery being investigated

From: Doug <par_at_noid.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1996/04/27
Message-ID: <ADA776AA96685DC9D_at_noid.demon.co.uk>#1/1 








In article <830418832.12915.0_at_acclaim.demon.co.uk>,
Frankh_at_acclaim.demon.co.uk (Frank Hendrix) wrote:



>:>What exactly did you have in mind for the charge?

>:

>:The police suggest in the UK either Computer Misuse Act - penalty up

>:to 5 years imprisonment. Alternatively, Race Relations Act - I'm not

>:sure of maximum penalty.

>:

>:BT advises that under the Telecommunications Act it is an offence to

>:transmit messages via the public network which are menacing,

>:threatening or intimidating.

>:

>:In other countries, whatever local appropriate law. Someone advises me


>:that in the USA the accused could be extradited to the UK.





Jesus Christ! What are things coming to? Do you mean I can actually be
punished for initiating ordered electrical impulses in a copper wire
connected to a totally incorporeal entity called "the internet" seemingly
populated by a bunch of shadowy and sometimes abusive phantoms such as
yourself?



Whatever happened to "freedom of expression" in a democratic society, or
sanity even?



Doug.

--
London, England, UK, EU.


Received on Sat Apr 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST












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