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		noselasd on March 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking t... It's more akin to publishing a phone catalog, where one of the entries say "Drugs, Inc." vs someone telling you to go to "Drugs, Inc." to buy crack. There may (or may not) be specific laws that deal with explicit referrals to illegal activities.

bluecalm on March 5, 2014 [–]

I am pretty sure that if you publish a phone catalog with drug dealers numbers and then include all other numbers in a town that would be a problem as well. Especially if drug dealers' numbers are in shiny font in front of the book with big "DRUGS HERE!" ad to boost it and the rest is somewhere on 20-9999 page.

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