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With passage of a new federal telecommunications law effectively banning "indecent" communications on the Internet, the cost of illiberal, left-wing campaigns against pornography and other speech deemed hateful should be clear. Censorship is now regarded as an appropriate response to social problems by centrist and left-of-center politicians, as well as upholders of "family values" on the right. Overwhelming bipartisan support for the indecency ban demonstrates how leftist proposals to regulate speech further a right-wing social agenda...
...about sexual activity, even when children are eavesdropping. Since the possibility of eavesdropping on the Internet is practically unavoidable, the telecommunications law requires that adults limit their conversations to whatever a court may consider fit for children. (Even sexually explicit speech with "redeeming social value" is included in this ban; "indecency" is defined as a "patently offensive" description of sexual or excretory activities or organs.) Federal law now treats any "indecent" cyberspeech between consenting adults that children may hear as a criminal offense, as if it were a form of seduction or statutory rape. This provision is being challenged...
LONDON: Germany, Finland, Singapore and New Zealand joined a growing list of countries banning the import of British beef, following an announcement by the British Health Secretary Thursday that the deaths of 10 people from Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), an incurable brain condition, may be linked to "mad cow disease", a bovine brain sickness that has been infecting British herds for the past decade. France, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal and the Netherlands announced the ban Thursday. The ban will result in a severe blow to British beef and dairy farmers. France called for a meeting yesterday of the European Union...
...base. The study concluded that although membership in hate groups is small, rules regarding active or passive participation in such groups must be clarified. However, because such rules come from the Department of Defense -- and not the Army -- the panel recommends that the Army push Defense to tighten the ban on active participation in hate groups by the troops. More troubling for an institution long praised for its racial integration are findings that racism is on the rise: "Gang-related activities appear to be more pervasive than extremist activities on and near Army installations and are becoming a significant concern...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher, arriving in Geneva on Sunday declaring that a ban on all nuclear testing is a top U.S. foreign policy goal...