Re: Communications Decency Act (was Re: 2nd Sight)

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Soenke Behrens (sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

: >commercial providers existed were on. Now we have that delightful Communicat-
: >ions Decency Act to look forward to on top of that. Hooray.

: There's a web page at http://www.cdt.org/petition.html that is
: collecting signatures against the act (and for a counter-proposal),
: backed by people like the EFF, CDT, NPTN, et al: almost 64k (over
: 65000) people have signed so far. Not really terribly impressive, I
: have to say ... the people I spoke to think this kind of protest is
: "pointless". I wonder what they think to be useful, though.

Been there done that. The senate already voted on this and the house will take
it up soon. I read in the Time mag article on AOL that Newt opposes the bill.
That's a bit of a surprise. The petition was to get congress to consider 
senator Leahy's alternative which was a study of the problem instead of just
going with the normal right winger knee jerk type course of action. I guess
it's a dead issue now though. Congress is kinda busy with the flag burning 
amendment now anyway.
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Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool