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

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

Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship (fwd)

Craig A. Johnson (caj@tdrs.com)
Wed, 13 Dec 1995 08:26:54 +0000 

Message-Id: <199512131422.JAA03853@clark.net>
From: "Craig A. Johnson" <caj@tdrs.com>
To: TPR-NE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Date:          Wed, 13 Dec 1995 08:26:54 +0000
Subject:       Re: Mike Godwin on Internet censorship (fwd)


On 12 Dec 95 at 20:02, Vigdor Schreibman - FINS wrote:
> 
> 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.  

There were no votes taken to accept the 'principles' in the bill. The
only vote taken by the committee yesterday was one to adjourn. It is
fair to say that the committe approved the staff recommendations, but
they are still subject to change, pending a final vote.

Nothing in this bill is "final" until the committee report is voted
on.

Representative Rich Boucher (D-VA) told reporters after the meeting
that there was no movement to remove or redefine "indecency" in the
bill that he "was aware of."  With the "indecency" language included
in both the Senate's Exon measure, and the House's Hyde measure, it is
almost certain that it will survive a vote by the full committee.

A staffer to Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) confirmed that the effort to
redefine "indecency" or make it more palatable had fallen apart.
Interactive service providers and civil liberties advocates were
divided and had failed to agree on a compromise, he said.

No further meetings of the conference committee have been announced.
There is a growing belief  that the committee will not report out a
bill by the end of the session.

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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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