[49755] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Communications Decency Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologi)
Sat Feb 10 21:24:54 1996
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 21:12:08 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))
Deepthroat@alpha.c2.org wrote:
>Why The Communications Decency Act passed, or
>Follow the money
>
> There's been a lot of commentary the last few days about this
>bill, this strange creature, seemingly of the 'Christian Right.' Talk
>of how and why its unconstitutional, protests; web pages blackened.
>But, oddly, no one seems to have examined who pushed the bill through
>Congress, or why.
>But where
>does that leave the big guys? ABC, NBC, CBS?? Can they survive in
>this brave new world which the net threatens to be?
>
> By and large, they looked at themselves, and saw they could
>not.
At last! Somebody bringing up the topic! I am quite recent on CPunks,
but I've been trying to push that point on alt.security.pgp and alt.privacy
some time ago.
After several try at it, I dropped the subject. I couldn't believe that nobody
considered this explanation to the CDA. The thought that many so-called
"free speecher" were actually hired by the big media to create a big fuss
among net users over the "porn vs religious" issue just to act as a diversion
even crossed my mind!
JFA
