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Subject: Re: Moderators- You may be violating the law

Author: Steve

Date: 17:28:35 06/30/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 07:57:09, robert michelena wrote:

>This nonsense about posting real names  made me wonder if this august body
>realizes that by posting the real names of individuals, they may be violating
>federal law.
>
>For instance, are they certain the individuals are truly adults??  There is a
>federal act that makes it illegal to post information concerning minors.
>
>Secondly, apparantly there is a possibility that those of us who signed on where
>not informed properly that our real names were going to be posted online.  I
>don't necessarily have a problem with that, but I do know that I did not notice
>this fact when signing on.
>
>If I were the CCC I would seriously look into this issue of privacy.  There are
>many instances of people going to court for violation of their privacy.

If you were really concerned about "protecting" the CCC, you could have e-mailed
one or more of the moderators with constructive suggestions about how to avoid
this supposed legal "problem" you think MAY exist (a fancy way of saying you
have no idea whether it does or it doesn't).  Sounds to me like you're just
trying to make trouble.



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