roundtable: "Indecency" Exposed in Today's Wall Street Journal

roundtable: "Indecency" Exposed in Today's Wall Street Journal

"Indecency" Exposed in Today's Wall Street Journal

Craig A. Johnson (caj@tdrs.com)
Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:27:34 +0000 

Message-Id: <199512081831.NAA02526@clark.net>
From: "Craig A. Johnson" <caj@tdrs.com>
To: telecomreg@relay.doit.wisc.edu
Date:          Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:27:34 +0000
Subject:       "Indecency" Exposed in Today's Wall Street Journal


FYI.

I am quoted in today's Wall Street Journal, p. B5, in a well-penned
article by Jed Sandberg, who is well-informed and sensitive to
genuine issues, in comparison with a lot of mainstream reporters
who merely write the hype, as spoon-fed to them by Congressional
staffers trying to exercise spin control.

Below are the first two paragraphs of the story: 


ON-LINE SOCIETY ANGERED BY PLAN TO CURB CONTENT

   			 By Jared Sandberg
	   Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

 "The latest move in Congress to curb 'indecent' material on the
Internet triggered outrage and scorn in cyberspace, as on-line users
decried it as censorship and plotted wasy to overturn it.
 "'Welcome to the age of electronic book burning,' said Craig 
Johnson, a consultant who worries that the term 'indecent' could be
applied to literary works, public-health and medical exchanges, and
serious discussion of AIDS and sexual behavior." 

......

Craig

Craig A. Johnson
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Telecommunications/Information Policy Specialist
Transnational Data Reporting Service, Inc.
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caj@tdrs.com

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