Re: Exon Countdown Clock and farewell messages

[Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>]

If Exon had understood the Internet, he would have wanted to control it 
even more. Worse yet, his staff would have drafted a CDA more likely to 
pass constitutional muster.

-Declan


On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Sean Roach wrote:

> At 09:59 AM 11/8/96 -0800, Michael Page wrote and Rich Graves forwarded:
> 
> >> ...
> >> >We would attempt to send it via a Email, but the respected Senator does not
> >> >have Email. (The Irony).
> >> ...
> 
> To Which, on Mon, 11 Nov 1996, I wrote:
> 
> >> There is no irony here, Mr. Exon tried to control the internet for the very
> >> reason that he didn't understand it and one of his granddaughters did.
> >> Perhaps if he did understand the internet then he wouldn't be a threat.
> >> Remember, people fear that which they don't understand.
>  
> To which, at 07:57 PM 11/12/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> >I disagree. I think people understand the printing press and still want 
> >to control it. Morality police are morality police, no matter what the 
> >medium or how well they understand it.
> 
> A valid point, and Exon may have had designs of media control the whole
> time.  The methods he used and the arguments he stated, however, suggested
> to me, that he was someone who did not comprehend the technology.  Those who
> he was able to sway with the dossier of .GIF's certainly were ignorant, many
> of them were turned by that one display of images.
> 


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