House panel OKs son-of-CDA (fwd)

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:48:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: House panel OKs son-of-CDA



http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,14791-101980917,00.

Time Daily
Son of CDA
September 17, 1998
By Jonathan Gregg

   Who should decide what's fit for kids to see online? If Rep. Mike
   Oxley has his way, says TIME correspondent Declan McCullagh, it will
   be "any Bible Belt prosecutor who's itching to make a name for
   himself." Oxley is the sponsor of the Internet decency act that was
   approved by a House Commerce subcommittee Thursday -- a bill that
   bears a striking resemblance to the 1996 Communications Decency Act
   that got the bum's rush from the Supreme Court, 9-0, for being
   unconstitutional.

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