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...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...
...claimed responsibility for his own comments, which I respect," Myers said. "He was in the minority and he stood up and said what he believed and personally took credit for it. An anonymous note in much more vulgar language is neither a fair nor productive response to Mitby's stance...
Restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself. In 1883, a New York District Court upheld a telephone company's rule prohibiting the use of "improper or vulgar" language on its lines. Apparently, a Mr. Pugh had used the word "damn" in a phone conversation, and his service was discontinued. Pugh challenged the company in court but the judge ruled against him: "The telephone," wrote the judge, "reaches into many family circles. It must be remembered that it is possible, from the peculiar arrangement of the instrument, to have a communication that...
...remember any controversial remarks, and I don't think I was lewd or vulgar," Gibson said...
Before you ask, no knowledge of Slavic languages is required. The reading is in translation, and the reading is worth reading. The ten books include Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, a novel about a scroungy Moscow mongrel transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts the philosophy of Friedrich Engels...