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...Ethan Tucker's Feb. 20 column, "The Wild, Wild Internet," reflected a complete misunderstanding of both the Internet and of free speech. Contrary to what Mr. Tucker writes, e-mail is not analogous to the telephone. The ruling to which the column refers in order to claim that free speech does not hold for telephone conversations of course applies to a technology which no longer exists, namely party lines. On today's telephone systems, content of conversations is unregulated because the technology is fundamentally different than it was in 1883. In 1883, conversations between two parties were not private...
...calls are point-to-point, and can not be intercepted by the unwitting Ned Flanders of the world who might find themselves offended. In other words, as long as a telephone call is solicited, or personal, it is fully protected by free speech statues, despite the contentions of Mr. Tucker...
...Ethan M. Tucker's column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...According to the New Yorker magazine, McDougal now backs David Hale's story that Clinton pressured him to make a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal. That's a departure from what both McDougal and Clinton testified under oath last year, when McDougal and former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation. In videotaped testimony, Clinton denied any memory of making such a loan, and White House spokesman Mike McCurry says the President stands by his testimony. Why did the Arkansas businessman recant and open himself up to perjury charges...
...Ethan M. Tucker's column appears on alternate Thursdays...