[45941] in Cypherpunks
Re: Assault presses with cop killer computers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin L Prigge)
Tue Dec 26 00:45:09 1995
From: Kevin L Prigge <Kevin.L.Prigge-2@cis.umn.edu>
To: jamesd@echeque.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 23:36:00 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512260507.VAA09404@blob.best.net> from "James A. Donald" at Dec 25, 95 08:49:42 pm
According to rumor, James A. Donald said:
>
> While channel surfing around 6PM today on Christmas day, I saw
> President Clinton announce the grave international threat
> posed by terrorists, drug dealers and money launderers wielding
> computers (Only three horsemen -- he left out child pornographers.)
Probably because child pornographers have been dealt with in
the recent bill signed by Bill, which mandates 24-30 months
for transmitting child porn, double if a computer is used.
>
> He was immediately followed by an Expert In Television Expertise,
> who told us that computers were getting more and more powerful, and
> doing more and more things, and that Something Must Be Done.
I'll have to keep an eye on my machine, I think it may be subversive.
Remember, computers don't break laws, people do...
> The Expert did not actually use the phrase "The first Amendment was never
> intended to protect modern assault presses using cop killer computers",
> but that was the message.
>
I'll have to rename my machine black-rhino :)
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