17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Feb 1995, Thomas Grant Edwards wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, Richard F. Dutcher wrote:
Gee, fellas, looking over this bill, *most* of what's going on is just porting existing telephone law over to cybercomm. Given the existence of 900-sex-talk, the phone companies are clearly not being held responsible for content.
Doesn't the common carrier status of RBOCs give them protection from this?
Hard to tell from this bill what the deal is on this. Common carriers aren;t completely immune from prosecution or lawsuit or whatnot to begin with. But in addition, S.314 introduces "transmit or otherwise make available" into the language of the law. Which makes the -carrier- of the "offending" information responsible. - dog