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Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by template3 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:55PM (#18196098)
Lol postal mail has a long history of moderation. A lot of first amendment case law with respect to obscenity and fraud comes from postal cases.
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Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by darkerside on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:47AM (#18200741)
Do you have some examples of what you're talking about?
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Re:Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier by professorgerm on Friday October 12, 2018 @10:22AM (#18201599)
The Comstock Laws [1] are probably the most famous US example, which made it illegal to use the USPS to send any obscene materials, including personal letters with sexual content.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws

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