[108065] in Cypherpunks
Re: JUDGE EXTENDS BAN ON ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD PORN LAW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bennett Haselton)
Wed Feb 3 06:46:59 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 05:37:16 -0600
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>
In-Reply-To: <60a48c330a538850882ec636e9082b15@anonymous>
Reply-To: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>
I was going to send the SJ Mercury News an angry e-mail for referring to
COPA as a "child porn law", but when I went to their Web site to find an
online copy of the article, the closest match I found was:
http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/cda02.htm
"Judge extends ban on porn law".
Of course, that's a much more accurate title -- I wonder if the original
title provoked such a backlash criticizing them for the inaccuracy, that
they re-titled the article in their online archives.
-Bennett
At 08:55 AM 2/3/99 -0000, HyperReal-Anon wrote:
>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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>&S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
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