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Sat Jan 9 03:44:54 1982
Re: Legal question (zehntel.130) (ucbonyx.220 followup)
Of course, although there might be some strange technicalities in the law
about the legality of jokes about the royal family, such laws are
meaningless. If anybody tried to inforce one, there would be such a mess
in the courts. The USA is full of such laws as well. There are, however,
enforced laws concerning international data communications in both the
USA and CANADA that say data may not be routed through one country and
back into another. (That stops somebody in Europe calling over telenet
into datapac because this means the data is being routed through the USA)
This in theory might meen that the USENET can cross the border in only
one place. (This might be wrong, however, since the law I think actually
says that the information can't go through one country without a destination
in that country. USENET doesn't violate this. My saying
mail decvax!watmath!jcwinterton does, however.
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