[83189] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Wed Jul 16 20:09:10 1997
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970716144140.4823C-100000@well.com> from "Declan McCullagh" at Jul 16, 97 02:42:07 pm
Reply-To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Declan McCullagh writes:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:16:47 -0500
> From: Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg@epic.org>
> To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
> Subject: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship
That should be Making the Net Safe for SafeSurf.
The proposal is a classic example of "if you can't beat 'em in
the marketplace, beat 'em in the legislature". It would require
a rating system while locking out new competition from the net
censorshipratings field. SafeSurf operates
a ratings system. Can you say "conflict of interest"?
Note provision 3, which stipuates that a rating must be "issued by a
ratings service that has a minimum of 5,000 documented individuals usin
its system to mark their data."
That'd kind of make it hard to start a competing ratings system, wouldn't it?
> Here is an example of a proposal being presented
> at the White House today.
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> The minds boggles at the number of unconstitutional
> provisions contained in such a brief text.
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> Never has a freedom won in a Supreme Court decision
> been given up so quickly.
Just like the lumber barons who destroyed vast forests for
their own profit, too many modern business people are willing
to sell out our freedoms in return for profit for themselves.
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