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That Link Is Illegal

Posted by timothy on from the so-put-it-on-a-non-school-server dept.

buzzdecafe writes with a snippet from a Declan McCullagh piece on news.com today: "The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organization to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act. School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe Collective, that linking to a site supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) would not be permitted because it violated federal law."

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  1. More news and background.... by tiltowait · · Score: 5, Informative

    here.

  2. Re:USA Patriot by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think that you understand our first ammendment. It is perfectly legal for a book publisher to publish a book by Hussein, or for a news organization to run bin Laden's videos. A newspaper can even run unibomber essays if it wants.

    Perhaps you can be a bit clearer about the difference between "vehicles of communication" and "speech."

    Is a "vehicle of communication" anything like a volkswagon van?