[48970] in Cypherpunks
Re: Telecom Bill may makes abortion talke illegal on the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Fri Feb 2 02:41:43 1996
From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 07:39:48 GMT
Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu> wrote:
>Sec. 507 of the Telecom Bill Ammends Section 1462 of title 18 of the U.S.
>Code (Chapter 71), in ways which may make sending the following over the
>Internet illegal:
[..]
> o any information telling about how to obtain or make abortions and
> drugs, or obtaining or making anything that is for indecent or immoral
^^^^^
> use
So the PharmWeb and any discussion of pharamacology would be illegal?
Or does that soley apply to abortion drugs? Immoral is a pretty vague
word legally...
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> (a) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture,
>motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of
>indecent character; or
So much for good foreign films...
> (b) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy phonograph recording,
>electrical transcription, or other article or thing capable of producing
>sound; or
Whoopie cuishins would be illegal.
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