As of this writing (2/15/96;8:33 pm), the Communications Decency
Actstill threatens liberty in the United States.What was once the beacon
of freedom and hope to the rest of the worldhas been transformed into an
international disgrace by the shameful,short-sighted act of an ignorant
Congress. The CDA is an unenforceable piece of legislative manurethat stands
no chance of being upheld. It is clearly and blatantly unconstitutional,
and will be overthrown as soon as a testcase reaches the courts. The intent of this legislation, however, is to create an atmosphere
offear that the writers of this law hope will lead to self-censorship. It'salready
happening. It won't happen here. slack magazine would be proudand
honored to be a test case for this law. To that end, we'd like to say:
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That should be big enough for Ms. Reno to read without her glasses
on, toparaphrase John Hancock. We're also pleased to report that as of half an hour ago, Playboy magazine was stillalive and well on
the net. Whatever you think of their 'girlie pictures',Playboy
has been an outspoken defender of free speech for several decades. I'm sure
that they would love to be a test case as well. For something inspiring, read The Declaration
of Independence of CyberSpace, byElectronic
Frontier Foundation Co-Founder John Perry Barlow. I believe that much
more changed on Black
Thursday thananyone now realizes. Here's some links to search for the 'seven dirty words' in other documents on the net:
Infoseek
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WebCrawler
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Lycos
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