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...Ethan M. Tucker's column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...Wild, Wild Internet" (February 20), Ethan M. Tucker explains that "restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself," referring to an 1883 New York District Court decision that upheld a telephone company's prohibition on the use of "improper or vulgar" language...
Similarly, solicited e-mails should be fully protected by free speech. The unsolicited "broadcasting" of bigoted emails which Mr. Tucker generalizes to stand for all forms of e-mail is separate and fully distinct matter. Even Internet sites which "distribute racist vitriol" are protected under free speech laws, because unlike unsolicited e-mail, the user must take a deliberate action to receive them...
Finally, I don't know where Mr. Tucker is from, but in the United States our right to "preach hate and bigotry on the town green" is explicitly guaranteed. I respect Mr. Tucker's freedom to opine on subjects that he clearly knows nothing about, but I wish that he wouldn't do it in the public medium of a newspaper--he is himself a decent argument against freedom of speech. --Joseph R. Varet...
...Publishing material on the Web is far more anonymous and far-reaching than anything written in any newspaper." So wrote Ethan M. Tucker in a Feb. 20 Crimson column on anonymity and free speech in the Internet, revealing in particular his lack of knowledge on how the Web works, and suggesting his lack of general knowledge on how the Internet works...