[108062] in Cypherpunks
JUDGE EXTENDS BAN ON ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD PORN LAW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HyperReal-Anon)
Wed Feb 3 04:09:06 1999
Date: 3 Feb 1999 08:55:09 -0000
From: HyperReal-Anon <nobody@sind.hyperreal.art.pl>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: HyperReal-Anon <nobody@sind.hyperreal.art.pl>
JUDGE EXTENDS BAN ON ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD PORN LAW
U.S. District Court Judge Lowell A. Reed has extended his temporary ban on
enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, and signaled in a lengthy
memorandum that he considers the act an unconstitutional violation of First
Amendment rights of free speech. To protect children from pornography
transmitted through cyberspace, the federal Child Online Protection Act
requires operators of commercial Web sites offering potentially
objectionable material to establish a system to prevent minors from viewing
that material. Judge Reed, a Reagan appointee, wrote: "Despite the Court's
personal regret that this preliminary injunction will delay once again the
careful protection of our children, I without hesitation acknowledge the
duty imposed on the Court and the great good such duty serves. Indeed,
perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment
protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in
the
name of their protection." (San Jose Mercury News 2 Feb 99)
"Mary had a crypto key,
she kept it in escrow,
and everything that Mary said,
the Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson
...
"I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there still had been portable money, it would have been more difficult.
"It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.
"Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control."
...
"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on."
- Offred, _The Handmaid's Tale_
ISBN 0-449-21260-2
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