Of course it's not what the news media have been saying, at least vocally. They often get suckered in by slick press releases and prepackaged pap. I sometimes wonder if my sitting next to a reporter during an event and telling him/her what's really going on ever changes what they write about or how they say it. I suspect it does. -Declan At 15:34 -0400 7/16/97, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970716111552.13849C-100000@well.com>, on 07/16/97 at 11:16 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
As for Lucky's point #2 -- Yes, I've read drafts of bills that would make it a Federal crime to misrate. --Declan
This doesn't sound like the "voluntary" system that the "news" media has been advertising.
Perhaps they were too busy peddling Toilet Paper & Tampons to report the most important part of the story: "Clinton Administration wants Mandatory Rating System for the Internet".
The mechanics of RSACi are really secondary to the fact that the FEDS want to force them on us.
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