Possibly AOL, MCI, and every public university in the US, depending on the
final strategies involved here. Of course none of us are going to be
arrested (or in my case, deported :) for doing "bad" things in our email
or Web pages. But you'll notice that when the Right wants certain ideas
to disappear, they don't try to get people to come around and remove the
books from your bookshelf. They go after the bottlenecks: they get the
ideas out of the local public libraries, the school libraries, and the
classrooms. And this works, as legions of crappy, bowlderized,
high-school biology textbooks testify (or so I've been told). The
equivalent in the case of the Net is to call every online
service-provider a "content provider" just for passing things along, and
every public university a "content endorser" just for making gateways
available. Stomp those bottlenecks, and we're back to BBS culture.
So no, they can't harrass you. But they can harrass every transmission
point that lies between you and Americans at large. (In theory; like I
said, I can't believe this is legally workable.)
-- Evan Kirchhoff, kirchh@umich.edu