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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 Administration opposed earlier versions of the decency bill but refused to hold up the entire telecommunications bill to get rid of it. Pressed on the issue, a defensive Vice President Al Gore told reporters, "We're obligated to administer the law, but we said from the start this particular provision...
...Henri's original family name was Cozad--he was a very distant relation of Mary Cassatt--but his father, a riverboat gambler and property shark, had shot a man in Nebraska and had moved East and changed his name to escape the judge and jury. Young Henri (pronounced Hen-rye) became an artist through study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which in the 1880s was still what its chief teacher, the great realist Thomas Eakins, had made it: the best place in America to learn direct, factual realist painting, based on incessant drawing...
Even classic pieces of literature, from Huckleberry Finn to The Catcher In The Rye, would no longer be available via electronic libraries, since occasionally vulgar language might not be legally "proper" for children...
...transmit "indecent" materials to minors, or discuss where or how to get an abortion on the Internet. The ACLU says it will challenge the bill in federal court, contending that the bill's wording is so vague that it would prohibit transmittal of novels like "Catcher in the Rye" and other forms of already-permitted free speech. Acccording to TIME's Joshua Quittner, "The protest shows the solidarity of online providers against a truly Kafkaesque piece of legislation." Quittner is not disappointed by the relative gentleness of the protest. "The online community is not particularly militant. We expect the ACLU...
...potentially forbids not only obscene language and pornographic pictures but the text of such works as The Catcher in the Rye and electronic images of works of art featuring nudes...