roundtable: Re: Congress Brokers Censorship Deal

roundtable: Re: Congress Brokers Censorship Deal

Re: Congress Brokers Censorship Deal

Matthew R. Sheahan (chaos@crystal.palace.net)
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 15:20:20 -0500 (EST) 

From: "Matthew R. Sheahan" <chaos@crystal.palace.net>
Message-Id: <199512042020.PAA14929@crystal.palace.net>
Subject: Re: Congress Brokers Censorship Deal
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 15:20:20 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951204112509.11231C-100000@okjunc.junction.net> from "Michael Dillon" at Dec 4, 95 11:25:53 am


> > Imminent death of the net legislated.  Mpeg at http://www.demon.co.uk.
> 
> Is this a joke? I couldn't see anything at Demon's web site to indicate 
> that there are legislative problems in the UK.

Sorry; yes, it was a joke.  I needed an arbitrary non-US Internet
presence for the line, and Demon was the first to come to mind.  The
"Mpeg" bit is intended to imply destruction of the US portion of the
Internet by said legislation.

ObComPriv: To keep from uselessly wasting more bandwidth than I
already have with this thread, enclosed is a message which I sent an
hour ago in an effort to document our attempts at reducing our legal
target profile in the matter.  The destination, fccinfo@fcc.gov, was
the closest thing to a responsible agency I could come up with; they
currently don't give a hoot about the matter and seemed mostly
confused by the message.

                                          |     Matthew R. Sheahan    |
                                          | Crystal Palace Networking |
                                            <chaos@crystal.palace.net>

> From chaos Mon Dec  4 14:24:47 1995
> Subject: Measures taken
> To: fccinfo@fcc.gov
> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:24:47 -0500 (EST)
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
> Content-Type: text
> Content-Length: 1179      
> 
> In light of the current legislative climate with respect to Internet
> regulation, Crystal Palace Networking, a local Internet Service Provider
> in Sussex County, NJ, would like to describe for the record measures we
> have taken to prevent illegal and harmful use of our systems.
> 
> First, users accessing our systems via shell accounts are given a warning
> message before entering areas where we cannot regulate content, with the
> option to abort their action or to permanently block the account's access
> to the area.  The latter allows parents to prevent children using the
> account from accessing unregulable areas.
> 
> Second, in our Usenet news feed, all newsgroups with names mentioning
> pedophilia, or children and erotica in conjunction, have been removed as
> of Monday, December 4, 1995.
> 
> Third, at every opportunity we make parents aware of filtering software
> which they can use to limit their children's access to the Internet.
> 
> We believe that these measures represent an effort in good faith to
> keep our service within the standards of the community.  If there are
> any comments on this, please contact us.
> 
>                                       |     Matthew R. Sheahan    |
>                                       | Crystal Palace Networking |

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