[49890] in Cypherpunks
Re: Strange Sounds of Silence
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lasser)
Mon Feb 12 12:12:26 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:26:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
To: Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net>
Cc: Alan Pugh <ampugh@pobox.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199602110307.VAA05228@grendel.texas.net>
On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, Sten Drescher wrote:
> AP> Has anyone else out there noticed the strange sounds of silence
> AP> emmanating from the american print and broadcast media concerning
> AP> the rider attached to the Telecommunications Act recently signed
> AP> by President Clinton known as the CDA (Communications Decency
> AP> Act)?
>
> Um, no. I heard about it on CNN, NBC, and the San Antonio
> Express-News (in a New York Times Service article), the only
> non-online news sources I routinely check. It appears to me that the
> sounds of silence are the only ones you want to hear.
Well, in the Washington Post story on the communications bill, (large
though I don't remember how large... front page, more in the back), there
were an entire two sentances about the Exon/CDA provisions.
Jon Lasser
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