From: lippard@Primenet.Com (James J. Lippard) Newsgroups: primenet.general,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Primenet user arrested for "terrorist threats" on the Internet Date: 23 May 1996 10:34:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Lines: 33 Sender: root@primenet.com Message-ID: <4o27i9$h3g@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <4nlpn1$9bi@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4ntr5p$4pt@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <31A2B09D.2BC5@primenet.com> <4o0tlm$o2u@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: lippard@usr07.primenet.com In article <4o0tlm$o2u@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, wrote: >Because this fellow calls Primenet's 800 number and flashes his phone >number on its box doesn't mean Primenet has to copy down the number >and send it to the feds. Doing so indicates Primenet had a conscious, >deliberate desire to hand this guy over to the feds, full well knowing >they would persecute him for exercising his right to free speech. > >Knowingly and willingly colluding with a party one knows to be acting >immorally is as reprehensible as acting immorally oneself. 1. The account was expired for nonpayment and because the user information was known to be bogus. It is our policy to record ANI information on users in such cases when they call in, so that an attempt to collect can be made. (BTW, only a few people at Primenet knew of the subpoena or the investigation. The person who obtained the ANI information was an employee in collections who did not know of this.) 2. In the conversation I had with an FBI agent prior to this, I was told that they didn't think they had anything to prosecute for, but just wanted to have a talk with him. I believed this, since it didn't appear to me that there was anything to prosecute for in his posting. I was quite surprised to hear last week that he had been arrested. 3. I would like to see the guy investigated and prosecuted for computer crime and fraud. 4. What would you have done? -- Jim Lippard lippard@(primenet.com ediacara.org skeptic.com) Phoenix, Arizona http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/ PGP Fingerprint: 35 65 66 9F 71 FE 50 57 35 09 0F F6 14 D0 C6 04