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For better or for worse, both the federal government and the state of Massachusetts have adopted extensive legislation to stem obscenity. Explicitly or by judicial decision (such as in the recent case of U.S. v. Thomas), such laws have been found applicable to computers. In addition, laws such as Massachusetts...
But thanks to coincidence--and a turn of political events--the 24 hours Smolan chose to document were anything but a celebration. They fell on the very day last week that President Clinton signed a telecommunications bill, which contains easily the most reviled piece of legislation in cyberspace, the Communications...
Civil libertarians argue that the Decency Act, in the name of protecting children, criminalizes everything from safe-sex information to The Catcher in the Rye. Says Shabbir Safdar, co-founder of the activist group Voters' Telecommunications Watch: "They basically want to turn the Internet into Barney the dinosaur." The Clinton...
A preliminary decision in that regard could come as early as this week. No sooner had Clinton signed the bill than the American Civil Liberties Union and nearly two dozen other plaintiffs filed suit in federal court to have the indecency clause declared unconstitutional. The Department of Justice has a...
Most of the new act deals with deregulating competition in the newspaper, television, cable and telephone businesses. But our focus will be the bill's indecency provision. Pushed through congress by a small faction of conservative Republicans, with Representative Henry J. Hyde at the vanguard, the provision mandates fines and...