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Re Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life


From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:58:16 -0500




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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () gmail com>
Date: February 19, 2017 at 6:48:04 PM EST
To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

The defense has filed for dismissal.  Their submission is thoughtful.  I'm especially intrigued to see their reliance 
on our 1977 Rand Report R-2134 on the email work we did back then[*]

     Techdirt lawyers ask judge to throw out suit over “Inventor of E-mail” 

     
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/techdirt-lawyers-ask-judge-to-throw-out-defamation-suit-over-inventor-of-e-mail/

The motion:

     https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3468242-Techdirt-Memo-in-Support-of-Special-MN-to-Strike.html#document/p2


d/

[*] The follow-on effects of that work were interesting enough to prompt development of a genealogy table:
     A Personal view: Impact of Email Work at The Rand Corporation in the mid-1970’s
     http://bbiw.net/articles/rand-email.pdf

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net



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