[82645] in Cypherpunks
Re: Marc Andreessen on encryption and CDA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Jul 1 01:05:44 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03007813afddcf2813fa@[168.161.105.191]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:10:47 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 2:02 PM -0700 6/30/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Marc Andreessen from Netscape spoke at a National Press Club luncheon on
>June 20. Attached is an excerpt from a transcript of his remarks.
>
> ... One final example, imposing censorship laws in
>this new consumer content medium that are more
>stringent and restrictive than those on newspaper and
>television.
At least we can point to the Supreme Court CDA decision which called the
net a medium worthy of the highest level of First Amendment protection.
(Putting on my optimist hat.)
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