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Re: Yeah, Yeah But what are we gonna do!
At 01:17 PM 2/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Spam beget filters.
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>Most congresscritters delete email from people other than their
>constituents already.
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>Adam
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Untrue most of them have responded to my correspondence.
For example, I live in Atlanta Ga. and Senator Bradley is a representative
of New Jersey. Here is his letter. By the way I have many more from
many other members of both House and Senate.
Thank you for contacting me to express your views concerning
the Communications Decency Act of 1995, which was recently passed as
part of S. 652, the Telecommunications Act of 1995. I greatly
appreciated the opportunity to review your thoughts on this issue.
Although the advances being made in our nation's information
and communications network are revolutionary and welcome, they also
provide openings for individuals to transmit obscene materials to
children and to lure children. Throughout my career in the U.S.
Senate, I have consistently encouraged the recording industry and the
television industry to limit explicit violence and sex on television.
Given the widespread growth of information networks, I supported the
Communications Decency Act as a means to curtail children's exposure
to offensive materials and to give parents some control over the
things their children see and hear.
While I supported this amendment because I believe there is a
need for some safeguards against obscenity, I do have some concerns
about the implementation of this provision, if it becomes law. There
should be a distinction between indecent and obscene material, as
there is in other relevant laws. Furthermore, this particular
amendment does not adequately reflect the unique nature of the
Internet, in which information crosses many computers and access
points before reaching the user. Finally, I was disappointed that the
Senate did not have an opportunity to consider an alternative proposal
suggested by Senator Leahy. This measure would have provided more
safeguards to ensure that First Amendment rights were preserved, but
still would have accomplished the overall objective of the adopted
version.
Determining who should be held responsible for disseminating
obscene material may be difficult. I am concerned that this could
lead to an overall chilling effect on online communication as users
fear that they may be held responsible for material they did not
originate.
Please be assured that I will keep your views in mind as the
joint House-Senate conference committee attempts to reconcile the
differences between the two versions of the Telecommunications Act of
1995.
Again, thank you for contacting me to share your views. I
hope to hear from you again in the near future.
Best wishes.
Senator Bill Bradley
Washington, DC 20510
(202)224-3224
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Charles Donald Smith Jr.
||The government is my shepherd I need not work. It alloweth me to lie
down on a good job. It leadeth me beside stilled factories. It destroyeth
my initiative. It leadeth me in the path of a parasite for politics sake. YEA,
though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficet spending I shall
fear no evil, for the government is with me. It prepareth an economic utopia
for me by appropriating the earnings of my grandchildren. It filleth my head
with false security. My inefficiency runeth over. Surely, the government
should care for me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in a fools paradise
forever.................AMEN! || nuke'm if ya got'em||