From: michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.censorship
Subject: Re: [news.admin] Re: "Computers graphic when it comes to porn"
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:39:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 21 Aug 92 15:12:23 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.151223.12312@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
[early matter of reposted article deleted for brevity]
  
   >Perhaps "High Times" could (I have no idea, I've never seen one, but
   >I have heard of it methinks) be considered in violation of the
   >hate speech (Keegstra) or knowing false news/hatred (Zundel) laws.  But
   >again, as Carl's quotes have shown, the American Supreme Court
   >has indicated, time after time, that they *would* uphold bans
   >of such material provided that the likelyhood of the material
   >causing nontrivial harm was sufficiently high.  If there's a difference
   >between Canada and the US here, it's only in how "high" "high" has
   >to be.
   >
   >If customs is indeed impounding High Times due to political content,
   >and High Times isn't even advocating the violation of Canadian
   >law, all it would take is for one person to stand on their hind
   >feet and challenge the ban.  There's no way on earth that the
   >Supreme Court would uphold the ban unless the magazine has things
   >you're not telling us about.
   >
   >Frankly, I suspect that if High Times is indeed being impounded
   >it's not because of content.  You see, if High Times doesn't
   >want to collect Canadian GST from Canadian subscribers then
   >High Times can't mail it into the country.  And High Times
   >is probably one of those rags that would rather rant about
   >a political conspiracy rather than admit that they simply
   >don't feel like collecting the tax.  [Yes, foreign GST collection
   >is indeed silly, but it has nothing to do with free speech.]
   >-- 
   >Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
   >Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
   >Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
   --
   Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

For those who do not know:
High Times is a monthly magazine having to do with various 
facets of cannabis (marijuana,pot,hemp,etc.), its cultivation, 
the sub-culture of those who use and/or cultivate, as well as 
U.S. 4th amendment privacy issues (illegal search-and-seizure, 
the "War on Drugs", etc.)

I would therfore doubt that, if it is being banned in Canada,
it is being banned for hateful speech. It may be, though, advocating
the breaking of Canadian law, though perhaps indirectly, by discussing
the use and cultivation of cannabis- two acts which are, as far as I
know, illegal in Canada.

As for being a rag which would rant about political conspiracies-
I wouldn't think so. But I could be very wrong.

follow-up is to alt.censorship
Chaplin.
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