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Re: News on Congressional Debate on Exon
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On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
> The agreement makes it all but certain that if legislation overhauling
> the nation's telecommunications laws is enacted, it will contain some
> of the most sweeping anti-smut provisions ever imposed on computer
^^^^
> communications.
>
> The plan is part of negotiations on a larger telecommunications bill
> and settles differences among House members who were deeply divided
> over how to best limit children's exposure to smut carried on computer
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> services, including the global network, Internet.
(rest of biased language deleted to keep my lunch down. Suffice it to
say that "smut" is such a loaded term than it's a wonder anyone can see
anything withing the framework of the constitution.)
> Indecent speech, unlike obscenity, is protected under the First
> Amendment. Though the House plan doesn't yet specifically define
> "indecent," the standard legal and regulatory definition says it is
> material that describes in terms patently offensive, as measured by
> contemporary community standard, sexual or excretory activities or
> organ.
That's obscenity folks. That _is_ legally defined. (Miller, wasn't it?)
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