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Date: 1998-10-17
US: Spermajaeger fuer Moral im Netz
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q/depesche 98.10.17/1
updating anno schnee
US-Kongress: Spermajäger für Moral im Netz
Erinnert sich noch wer an das Communication Decency
Amendment aus anno schnee 96? Das erste echte
Zensurgesetz in der Geschichte des Internet ward vom
Supreme Court alsobald abgeschmettert. Es waren dieselben
Abgeordneten im US- Kongress, die für die Publikation des
Sperma & Zigarrenpornos Lewinsky/Clinton im Netz
verantwortlich waren. Jetzt sorgen sich grade wieder um die
Moral der Jugend & wollen genau das unter Strafe stellen,
was sie selber getan haben.
Zum Censorship Busting diesmal angetreten: ACLU & EPIC
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Elizabeth Weise
1998 OCT 16 By Civil liberties groups are poised to challenge
as soon as next week a controversial Internet provision added
to the mammoth spending bill before Congress.
The provision requires commercial Web sites to block
children's access to material deemed ''harmful to minors'' or
face criminal penalties. The Senate had earlier passed
similar legislation.
''We intend to file suit as soon as legally permissible, which
could be as early as next week,'' says the ACLU's chief
counsel, Chris Hansen.
...
''If Web sites have to verify the age of those receiving
particular material at a site, it means that people have to
identify themselves and records have to be kept,'' says David
Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which
expects to be a co-counsel on the suit.
The bill's author, Rep. Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, counters that the
courts have traditionally recognized a difference between
what adults and children are allowed to see.
...
An analysis released by the Justice Department found
serious constitutional problems with the legislation and
raised concerns that it would draw resources away from more
important law enforcement efforts aimed at protecting
children.
...
''They were not in a very strong political position to be seen
out in the open - or even behind closed doors - as facilitating
pornographers,'' Oxley said.
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Opponents say the measure is similar to the first Internet anti-
pornography legislation, the Communications Decency Act
(CDA), which the Supreme Court overturned last year as a
violation of freedom of speech.
Oxley replies that his language takes a much narrower view,
applying only to commercial Web sites instead of the entire
Internet and using the ''harmful to minors'' standard instead of
a broader obscenity standard. ''We bent over backwards to
correct errors in the CDA,'' he says.
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