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...been a suspenseful spring in cyberspace. Everyone has felt it, from the folks who gather for online chats at Bianca's Smut Shack to the Netizens who post daily dispatches to the "fight censorship" E-mail list. The whole information revolution was jeopardized, the cybernauts believed, by a primly named federal statute called the Communications Decency Act. Signed into law by President Clinton on Feb. 8, after being passed by an admittedly Net-illiterate Congress, the CDA was supposed to squelch online pornography and make the Net safe for children by banning "indecent" content. But the legislation was so vague...
...Philadelphia jurists (two Bush appointees, one Carter) found no indication that children were at particular risk to exposure to smut online--TIME's controversial "cyberporn" cover story last summer notwithstanding. In a kind of Socratic online safari, the judges spent weeks learning their way around the Net. Guided by experts who brought computers and an Internet connection into the courtroom, they searched for online porn and tested software that allows parents to screen out offensive material. They finally concluded that whatever danger was posed for kids by the presence of "indecent" offerings online was best addressed by parents or teachers...
...There is no evidence that sexually oriented material is the primary type of content on this new medium," they wrote. "Communications over the Internet do not 'invade' an individual's home or appear on one's computer screen unbidden." The judges found that dicey material--whether from Bianca's Smut Shack or Playboy magazine's hugely popular site--was generally preceded by warnings admonishing those under the age of 18 to keep out. Even the government's own expert witness acknowledged that the odds were slim that a user would come across a sexually explicit site by accident...
...Tempora! Oh Mores! Regarding your article on the Undergraduate Council's ability to attain quorum: It is bad enough that the president of the U.C. is swearing in official meetings, but do we really have to read this smut on the front page? --Adam L. Cohen...
...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...