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Subject: Re: US looking at banning 'violent ...' Posted on: 14 May 2008 10:12:36 GMT

In article ,
Mike Ross wrote:
>>Newsday, New York, USA: 13 May 2008
>>http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--internetviolence0513may13,0,7364393.story
>>Or, http://tinyurl.com/3r9za5
>>
>>ALBANY, N.Y. - Reacting to recent Internet postings like "Dude gets
>>savagely put to sleep" and "Brutal girl fight," several Republican
>>state senators vowed Tuesday to criminalize videotaping and sharing
>>assaults online, saying it victimizes people a second time.
>>[...]
>
>Not a snowballs chance in hell - we have this pesky little First Amendment...

And Americans' apparently insatiable appetite for portrayal
of violence.

Francis