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Biotech / Medical : Pluvia vs. Westergaard
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (727)8/31/1997 12:27:00 AM
From: Wendell Holmes   of 1267
 
There are big differences between civil wrongs and criminal acts. The courts have rule many times in regard to free speech that the doctrine of no "prior restraint" applies. The "Pentagon Papers" comes to mind. The govenment or Princess Di or Steve Pluvia cannot prevent someone else from exercising free speech rights. They do have redress if they are damaged. Also, some seem to miss the distinction between privacy and anonymous free speech. I don't think they are the same thing. Details of your life that are not related to your public personna are private. What you say anonymously is public. If you enter into certain arenas of discourse you apparently forfeit the private nature of those parts of your life directly related to that voluntary action. For example, posting on financial boards is tacit admission that financial aspects of your life may be invaded or made public. If someone began to expose your sex practices or posted the schools your kids went to, that would be definitely an invasion of privacy. There's an old Southern sayin', "If you lie down with dogs, you're gonna get up with fleas." To jump into a financial fracas and then complain that you caught fleas, and then further to complain that you were only lying there to do the dogs a favor, smacks of a naivete' that I don't think Pluvia has.
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