[46818] in Cypherpunks
Re: S.652 (H.R. 1555)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Davis)
Tue Jan 9 11:32:48 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:22:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
To: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Mkwbpze00YUv81Jqs3@andrew.cmu.edu>
On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 8-Jan-96 S.652 (H.R. 1555) by Harry
> Bartholomew@netcom
> > Perhaps some of our more lawyerly types can decipher whether
> > it is getting better or worse as the conference committee chews.
> > Not I.
>
> I'm not a lawyerly type by any means, but my understanding is that it's
> getting worse:
>
> * The provision prohibiting the FCC from regulating the Net has been removed.
> * The max fine for "indecent" speech is now $250,000.
^^^^^^^^^
Probably accomplished by making the "crime" a felony. Standard fine for
Title 18 cases is $250,000 (there are exceptions, of course.
EBD
