Re: Destroying PCs remotely?

[Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:49:44PM +0100, John.Airey () rnib org uk said:
> Your constitution says (Amendment V) "No person shall ... be deprived of
> life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". 
>
> How you can have due process when any warnings will be on the PC that has
> been destroyed? Unless of course you find out the person's address. If you

You can't.  But off-the-cuff comments essentially wishing doom on
people you don't like aren't violations of the Constitution.  When we
make them against spammers, we view it as justifiable frustation.  When
Hatch makes them against copyright violators, folks come out of the
woodwork spewing venom.  Some of them, ironically, calling for the
destruction of his PC without due process.  Hatch wasn't introducing a
bill, he was bitching about people doing something illegal that he
personally disagrees with, and that has a potential direct effect on him
since he holds some copyrights.

If he'd said "spammer" instead of "copyright violator" we'd all be
cheering him on.  Instead, you're making statements like "people like
him give Christians a bad name", which is really ironic in an email
signed with an anti-Evolution sig.


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