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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (64698)10/29/2002 2:31:51 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
No. SI is not the law. It is a minor contract. The law subsumes it as it does all other contracts. Constitutional and legal rights trump the narrow and specific terms of SI. SI is not the Government. SI only has authority to suspend for infractions such as libel, murder, stalking, luring, publishing porn, etc. They are not the arbiter of Constitutional rights and freedoms. In the scenario I mentioned, suspending the culprit would do me absolutely no good. They would continue to break the law until they were caught, charged, and punished.

It really doesn't matter whether people break the law with a fraud scheme on the internet, or with stalking somebody on bulletin boards (something the police are always warning the public about)...the choice of media does not protect the wrongdoer.

The police are always trying to educate people that chat lines and bulletin boards are not fantasy. They are real life with real people. There have been many infractions on SI which have gone to the courts. One of my stocks is involved right now in that many of the company are charged with securities fraud and that some of the posters are alledged to have connections to same--Medinah Minerals. The world is a real place--all of it. Wherever you go, there you are...
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