Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lunatics. Then ever so delicately, they'll admit the truth about their guy; sure Clinton wobbles, he has inhaled too many burgers, he was sure no war hero. But he's a work in progress, he's done good things, protected your grandparents, saved school lunches, wiped the smut off the tube. Clinton's paradoxical message must be, I can deliver change, prepare us for this big complex future, just as I always promised. Only now, I promise to do it with utmost discipline and sobriety...
Complete reliance on parental monitoring of a child's computer use at home or elsewhere cannot keep smut from our children. As such, government, in its role of representing the social interests of its citizens, must step...
...Congress, setting into motion a flurry of responses by activists and commercial firms. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately filed suit over a provision banning "indecent" material from electronic networks, saying the measure abridges free speech. Many popular Internet sites also turned their backgrounds black in protest. While the smut provision has captured many of the headlines, several other important measures also became law. The barrier between long-distance and local providers is now gone. AT&T announced moments after the bill was signed that it will enter local telephone markets by this summer, while local phone giant GTE said...
...telecommunications bill Thursday, the coordinators of the Voters Telecommunications Watch, an online anti-censorship group, have arranged for about 150 groups and individuals to turn the background color of their websites black or hang virtual blue ribbons on the sites. This protest of the bill's anti-smut and anti-abortion provisions will run for 48 hours, starting after Clinton signs the bill Thursday afternoon. Among the parts of the legislation being protested: making it illegal to transmit "indecent" materials to minors, or discuss where or how to get an abortion on the Internet. The ACLU says it will challenge...
...that our brave new social space shields the vicious from having to stand up for what they are saying and be held responsible for it. CLAUDIUS KLEIN Berlin I AM AGAINST CENSORSHIP, BUT THERE has to be regulation to protect the weaker elements of our society. Placing freedom of smut over freedom from sexual exploitation doesn't make sense. Freedom of expression also applies to those people who voice their opinion about regulation of the Internet and favor such control. Barlow's comments about "trivial struggles" pertaining to such matters as "sexually misused hamsters" and intercourse with children and animals...