Re: earlier posting of users' passwords and credit card numbers

[steinber () SLINKY CS NYU EDU (Joseph Steinberg)]

On Tue, 11 Oct 1994, Christopher A. Stewart wrote:

> I beg your pardon.. Where have you been the past 20 years if you think
> US law is confined with in it's borders.. And by the way the US is not
> the only country that extends its laws beyond it's borders.. Look at
> european countries prosecuting their citizens for using child
> prostitudes in SE Asia.. 
YEs, but US Law does not extend into areas where things are legal. THE US 
cannot prosecute a person from another country for doing something in his 
home country that is LEGAL there .... it is only when the info reaches 
the US That it is illegal to distribute. 

With your logic -- no anti-Moslem or pornographic material should be 
allowed on the internet -- as it will reach Iran where that material is 
strictly illegal. Ah, but you are posting in the USA or Europe -- oh, so 
it does matter where the poster is and what his local laws are... well, 
in that case, i ask you what is the differecnce between an Iranian 
posting material that is illegal in the USA and an American posting 
material thatt is illegal in Iran ... assuming that each posts in his 
native coutry?

JS
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