roundtable: Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship (fwd)

roundtable: Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship (fwd)

Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship (fwd)

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 20:02:02 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 20:02:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: lists distribution -- activ-l messages <activ-l@mizzou1.missouri.edu>,
Subject: Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship (fwd)
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951212195908.5815B-100000@access2.digex.net>


FYI

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 19:58:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access2.digex.net>
To: "Terence L. Day" <terence@wsu.edu>
Cc: "S. Finer" <xerxes@clark.net>, online-news@marketplace.com
Subject: Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship 


On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Terence L. Day wrote:
> 
> Yes, there is obscenity on the Internet; but the proposed legislation
> doesn't stop with obscenity.  It introduces new concepts such as indecency.

  Maybe not.

  The Senate-House Conference Committee on telecommunications reform
agreed by voice vote this afternoon (Tues Dec 12) to 46 "principles" that
would govern the final text of the bill.  This included 34 principles
agreed to Dec 6, 1995 and 12 new principles.  Title V - Broadcast
Obscenity and Violence (items 29-30 agreed to Dec 6) pertain to Senate
bill provisions pertaining to Obscene Programming On Cable Television, and
Broadcasting Obscene Language on Radio.  No principle is included that
would regulate "indecency."

  Item 31, also agreed to Dec 6 deals with Senate bill provisions
pertaining to Scrambling of Cable Channels For Nonsubscribers, and item 2,
agreed to Dec 12 deals with Senate bill requirement for Scrambling of
Sexually Explicit Adult Video Service Programming.  Item 34 agreed to Dec
6, deals with House bill provisions pertaining to Parental Choice in
Television Programming (aka "V-Chip), with modifications to the
development of the technology fund and expedited review for a
constitutional challenge. 

.....
> 
> We are a society on the verge of political and social insanity!

  As to the above proposed legislation, this forecast is premature. There
are other provisions of the bill unrelated to sexual expression, however,
which in this writer's opinion conclusively reveal the deep political and
social pathology of this society, not the least of which is the appalling
lack of manifest concern by librarians, educators, and the mass media for
the despicable influence peddling, monster model combining content and
conduit, and emerging "Telco Feudalism" arising from monoply consolidation
of newspapers, telephone companies, cable TV companies, broadcast 
industries, and information services.

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>

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