Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1391-994300788-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19128 invoked by uid 510); 5 Jul 2001 01:42:16 -0000 Received: from c3.egroups.com (208.50.99.225) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 5 Jul 2001 01:42:16 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1391-994300788-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by c3.egroups.com with NNFMP; 05 Jul 2001 02:39:48 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Jul 2001 02:39:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 583 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2001 02:39:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jul 2001 02:39:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Jul 2001 02:39:43 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id TAA05421 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 19:39:43 -0700 Message-Id: <200107050239.TAA05421@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 19:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit By Molly Moore Washington Post July 4, 2001; Page A01 TEHRAN -- Arash Fahimi is a teenager in a nation that frowns on dating, outlaws rock music and offers a 17-year-old almost no chance for travel beyond its borders. But Fahimi, like hundreds of thousands of young Iranians, has discovered an escape from his cultural cocoon. Sitting at a computer terminal in an Internet cafe, he downloads the latest Western pop music hits and chats daily with cyber-acquaintances around the globe. He even found a girlfriend on the Internet. "I want to have a better idea of what the world is like," said Fahimi, earphones clamped under a Nike baseball cap and fingers tapping out a chat room response on his screen. "If I can't make a trip abroad, the Internet is the best way." In the Islamic Republic of Iran, where public behavior is stringently regulated and citizens fear arrest for speaking their minds, the Internet is transforming personal lifestyles and liberating public expression at a pace that a technologically handicapped bureaucracy has been unable to control. [FC - More at their web site.] ======================================================================= http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/july01/755632.html Man's journal ruled obscene Wednesday, July 4, 2001 Tim Doulin Dispatch Staff Reporter Brian Dalton wrote fictitious tales of sexually abusing and torturing children in his private journal, intending that no one else see them, he said. But when his probation officer found the journal during a routine search of Dalton's Columbus home, prosecutors charged him with pandering obscenity involving a minor. In Franklin County Common Pleas Court yesterday, the 22-year-old man's written words cost him 10 years in prison. The case worries civil-rights lawyer Benson Wolman, who said it has free-speech implications. "What you're saying is somebody can't, in essence, confess their fantasy into a personal journal for fear they have socially unacceptable fantasies, then ultimately they end up getting prosecuted,'' said Wolman, former director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio. "This is the only case that I know of where we are talking about a journal -- just written words. It surprises and offends me that an action should be brought based on a journal.'' [FC - Freedom of speech - of writing in your private journal while taking no action - no longer a right here?] ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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