open letter to comp.music.research readers
Oph...@comp.music.research
That is
how she interprets the language of the bill.
Wow.
And I thought Ed Meese was a bad Attorney General. Meese had written
to companies like the owners of 7-11 and told them selling Playboy and
Penthouse could get them Federal obscenity charges. That was his attempt
to get around the First Amendment.
10/3/96 NYT: Because of computers, a bill was passed that changes the
definition of child pornography to include generated images that do
not involve actual children.
Thought crime. Law enforcement child pornography hysteria.
Sturges incident: attacked by the FBI Thought Police Squad. Massive corrupt
use of governmental law enforcement authority to enforce mere political
correctness. Due to its size: by definition not an aberration.
It cost one million dollars of our tax money.
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On June 19, 1997, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain introduced
his own bill (Senator Kerrey co-sponsor) which parrots the Clinton
administration's position and forced it to replace the Pro-Code bill.
He banged the Drum of War against Child Pornography.
* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly, By Declan McCullagh
*
* In the end, it was child pornography that derailed encryption legislation
* in the U.S. Senate and dealt a bitter defeat to crypto supporters.
*
* Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), committee chair and chief sponsor of the
* measure, led the attack, saying Congress must "stop child pornography
* on the Internet."
*
* He warned that "all
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