Damn, you beat me to it...
It never fails to amaze me how many people talk about
the 1st amendment, when it only applies to fed and
state gov...ack
Then you hear everyone and their dog complain about
how their rights were violated when they were told by
their work not to wear this shirt or that, or a chat
place deletes posts or bans users.. Oh well. if Yahoo
does, big deal. Find a nice free server and set up a
website.
- Hobbes
--- Andrew Greene <blaze_at_netaxs.com> wrote:
> First of all, the first amendment applies only to
> state and federal
> governments, not companies. Second of all, Yahoo
> can make whatever rules
> they please regarding content, as they own the
> servers and so on. Third of
> all, your advice about changing colors and names is
> simply wrong, wrong,
> wrong. Sheesh. Do some research, whydoncha?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iontiger [mailto:iontiger_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 5:02 PM
> To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] RE: Yahell on nuclear
> rampage against Furry
> groups
>
>
> If they are targeting groups for adult content,
> then they are in
> violation of the First Amendment.
> "Free speech, Free press, the right to peaceable
> assembly".
> As I understand, according to copyright law, the
> only time can a
> corporation or company go after someone for
> violating a copyright or
> patent is when that person or people are makeing
> money off of
> copywritten material or committing some form of
> piracy.
> It is my impression that in general principal
> Yahoo stands in
> violation of the First Amendment for nuking those
> groups.
>
> Yahoo should have given a warning of what they
> were about to do and
> why.
> Yahoo should have also provided the e-groups a
> certain amount of
> time to remove the material in question or face
> being deleted.
>
> If they are targeting groups at the request of W.B
> or Disney, that
> contain images that they lay claim to, the best
> thing to do will be
> to change the coloring and do some minor alterations
> (name of
> character and image) so that the images won't have
> any likeness to
> the copywritten characters.
> I believe as well as hope that will be sufficient in
> combating
> Yahell's antics.
>
> ------your friendly fur:
> -Iontiger
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Received on Fri Sep 27 2002 - 14:40:22 CDT