Word: jailing
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...Wednesdayby an 84-16 vote, would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years for knowingly transmitting "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments overelectronic networks that are accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out."Jump toNetPolitics
...sent free-speech advocates into a tailspin, would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting"obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments over electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute.) "This is a very cynical vote," saysTIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It's unconstitutional, and the first time anybody challenges it, it's going to be thrown out." The handful of opponents Wednesday found a rare conservative ally...
...county funds and by private donors. Yet another source of acrimony is whether the Terrace deserves to be considered a Wright design at all. A local organization called It Ain't Wright has argued that the architect's original concept envisioned a 2.8 hectare multipurpose civic center, complete with jail and railroad station, on a pristine stretch of lakeshore. The scaled-down version being built snuggles up against a cluttered Madison neighborhood. The proximity, critics say, violates Wright's central thesis that architecture should be in harmony with surrounding nature...
Federal prosecutors ran into an unexpected obstacle in their case against James Nichols (the brother of Terry Nichols, who has been charged in the Oklahoma City bombing). Authorities believe James Nichols may know a lot about the April 19 blast, and they had been holding him in jail on unrelated explosive charges in Michigan. But a federal judge expressed skepticism about the soundness of those charges and, finding that he posed little threat or risk of flight, released him into the custody of neighbors, pending trial. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma City, officials demolished the remains of the bombed-out federal building...
ARRESTED. JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, 39, celebrity cad; for soliciting sex from an undercover cop; in Los Angeles. Buttafuoco could face six months in jail-plus more time in New York, where he is on probation for the statutory rape of gun-slinging teen Amy Fisher. Said tenaciously patient wife Mary Jo: "My husband is a very friendly...