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URLs and books are just strings of numbers and letters

URLs and books are just strings of numbers and letters

An interesting article on News.com this morning:  Court ponders website blocking law. Among other things it has Pennsylvania saying that the fallout from its censorship laws do not affect a “SIGNIFICANT amount of LEGITIMATE speech.” What they are really saying is: so what if a little free speech is eliminated so long as we get the big target with our shotgun.Pennsylvania also goes on to say that a URL “...is a little string of letters and numbers...Speech can always find another URL...” Would they then agree that books are also just a string of letters and numbers and speech can always find a new book/publisher-right? It is so assuring to find the issuer and defender of the censorship degrees, Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher, has gone on to the bigger, better and more trustworthy position of federal appeals court judge.

 

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