roundtable: Re: Exon Prayer and Then Some...

roundtable: Re: Exon Prayer and Then Some...

Re: Exon Prayer and Then Some...

rehm@zso.dec.com
Tue, 27 Jun 95 07:37:07 -0700 

Message-Id: <9506271437.AA31054@slugbt.zso.dec.com>
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@cni.org>
Subject: Re: Exon Prayer and Then Some... 
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 07:37:07 -0700
From: rehm@zso.dec.com


Stan,

> Anyone following the numerous technical discussions now taking place on 
> the Internet with regard to end-user filtering options will understand 
> that such technology is close at hand. Here is the real solution. Each 
> parent, using these emerging technologies, will soon be enabled to block 
> out what (s)he considers inappropriate for children. The Religious Right, 
> though,exerting enormous lobbying pressures on our legislators, seems 
> strangely unsatisfied with this sort of solution. I'm far from alone 
> in my suspicion that their real agenda is to control what adults will 
> say to one another, eventually possibly even imprisoning people for 
> religiously or politically incorrect speech which these religionists 
> would help to define. Many on the left, although with a different 
> rationale, would also needlessly sacrifice First Amendment liberties 
> essentially to silence speech they didn't agree with. 

What evidence do you have of your last statement in this
paragraph, that "Many on the left....would also needlessly
sacfifice First Amendment liberties"?

By my reading, much of the "left" (whatever that is) is
supportive of the campaign to stop the Communications Decency
Act.  In fact, here is a list of "Participating Organizations"
taken from the Voters Telecom Watch at URL:

     gopher://gopher.panix.com/00/vtw/exon/alert

I don't mean to label any of these organizations necessarily
"left", but certainly these organizations would not identify
themselves as members of the "right".  

/eric rehm
President, Seattle Chapter
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
<rehm@zso.dec.com>


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LIST OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

In order to use the net more effectively, several organizations have
joined forces on a single Congressional net campaign to stop the
Communications Decency Act.


American Civil Liberties Union * American Communication Association *
American Council for the Arts * Arts & Technology Society * Association
of Alternative Newsweeklies * biancaTroll productions * Californians
Against Censorship Together * Center For Democracy And Technology *
Centre for Democratic Communications * Center for Public Representation
* Citizen's Voice - New Zealand * Computer Communicators Association *
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility * Cross Connection *
Cyber-Rights Campaign * CyberQueer Lounge * Dutch Digital Citizens'
Movement * Electronic Frontier Canada * Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Electronic Frontier Foundation - Austin * Electronic Frontiers
Australia * Electronic Frontiers Houston * Electronic Frontiers New
Hampshire * Electronic Privacy Information Center * Feminists For Free
Expression * First Amendment Teach-In * Florida Coalition Against
Censorship * Friendly Anti-Censorship Taskforce for Students * Hands
Off! The Net * Human Rights Watch * Inland Book Company * Inner Circle
Technologies, Inc. * Inst. for Global Communications * Internet
On-Ramp, Inc. * The Libertarian Party * Marijuana Policy Project *
Metropolitan Data Networks Ltd. * MindVox * National Bicycle Greenway *
National Coalition Against Censorship * National Public Telecomputing
Network * National Writers Union * Oregon Coast RISC * Panix Public
Access Internet * People for the American Way * Rock Out Censorship *
Society for Electronic Access * The Thing International BBS Network *
The WELL * Voters Telecommunications Watch

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