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From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: There are basically no export controls on public domain information.
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 19:48:18 EST
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In article <397@maynard.UUCP> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>I think all this worrying about whether to post DES code is a bit off
>the mark.  The relevant US export restrictions are stupid, repressive,
>probably unenforceable on First Amendment grounds, and ought to be
>violated at every chance.  If the government were so obtuse as to
>actually prosecute anyone for this, I would be glad to contribute
>money to a legal defense fund;  I suspect many other netters would be
>too.

And pay for lost salary, and pay for ruined career.  Whether or not they
won.  McCarthy's victims fought on these exact same principles, and 
fought hard.  Fat lot of good that did them (Eg: Chaplin left the 
country and didn't come back until just before his death, many suicides, 
permanently ruined careers).

Small consolation for proving a relatively minor point and getting ruined
in the process.  Even though Gary Francis Powers was found not guilty
of treason he ended up flying traffic helicopters in Oshawa (just east
of here).

I'm sure the Canadian subsidiary of General Electric would appreciate 
donations for lost revenues too.  (They were charged over locomotives 
being manufactured in Canada and being sold to Cuba - EVEN THOUGH IT'S 
A CANADIAN COMPANY!  Well, actually, the parent company was threatened a 
lot by the US Govt.)
-- 
Chris Lewis
Spectrix Microsystems Inc,
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