Word: contently
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First of all, Congress is in the midst of developing legislation to regulate what can be said on the Internet. Last Wednesday a House-Senate conference committee agreed on the content of a new bill which would impose tough prohibitions against transmitting obscenity and "indecent" material over computer networks. The bill would include fines and prison terms for people who make "indecent" material available to minors. "Indecent" material is a step removed from explicitly sexual and pornographic material, and covers four letter words and sexual material deemed "patently offensive" by local community standards. (For those of you hissing "Newt" between...
...information passing over their lines and stored on their computers, and would be responsible if anything "indecent" found its way into the hands of a minor. (To continue the previous analogy, the man whose store the bulletin board hangs in would also face legal trouble.) The responsibility of content-monitoring is an unreasonable burden to place upon network providers whose systems handle a vast flow of information...
...recent libel case brought against Prodigy in the New York State Supreme Court resulted in a ruling that the on-line service was responsible for a comment posted by an anonymous user. Part of the rationale for the decision was that Prodigy does do some monitoring of its content and therefore, like a publisher, is liable. This decision leaves such companies in the awkward position of having to either leave their content entirely unabridged, or monitor it with a ridiculous degree of stringency. However, there was another, more heartening legal precedent set recently. Federal judge Leonie M. Brinkema...
...price we would pay in freedom for supposedly protecting our children is simply unacceptably high. One alternate solution might be a software equivalent of the proposed V-chip, which will allow parents to block violent television programs. For instance, network software such as Netscape might allow parents to content-regulate their children's browsing on a private and individual basis. Additionally, we must not forget that the American people always have the option of asking individuals and private companies to voluntarily regulate what they post...
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