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...protect them. All they have to do to see pornography is turn on the TV or go to a movie. The old guys in the Senate are scared to death of the computerized nation we are becoming because they have no idea how the computer works. Give Senator Jim Exon, the man who sponsors the Communications Decency Act, an account on American Online, show him how it works, and we'll never see him again...
...Brandy, babe. Hello law-and-order on the electronic frontier. "In its simplest form, we are taking the antismut and antipornography laws that have long been in place with the telephone and the mails, and applying them to the information superhighway," says Senator Jim Exon, the Nebraska Democrat who sponsored the decency act. "I want to make the information superhighway as safe as possible for kids...
...James Exon (D-Neb.) announced that he would not seek a fourth term in 1996, throwing a little sand on Democratic hopes to retake the Senate. Republicans now hold a 54-46 majority. Exon, who first won the seat in 1978, cited "the ever-increasing vicious polarization of the electorate" as a major reason for his departure. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who chairs the national Republican senatorial committee, said winning Exon's seat would be a GOP priority. D'Amato's Democratic counterpart, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, now has to comb his largely Republican state...
Some members of Congress apparently agree. Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska introduced legislation earlier this month calling for two-year prison terms for anyone who sends-or knowingly makes available-obscene material over an electronic medium. "I want to keep the information superhighway from resembling a red-light district," Exon says...
...civil libertarians fear the proposed law could turn every online-service provider into an info cop. "Exon's bill would be the end of the Internet as we know it," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a New York City-based media-research firm. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argues that constitutional guarantees apply in the new media just as they apply in the old-no matter how offensive the material. "The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because no one ever tries to ban the other kind," he says...