At 09:55 AM 3/25/96 -0500, "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 25-Mar-96 Re: LIST OF SHAME VOLUNTEERS by Black Unicorn@schloss.li
I did a little weekend poking, I can confirm this. If the Leahy bill passes, it will be a surprise (putting it mildly).
Especially since there are only -- how many? -- 40 or 50 days left in this legislative session.
It might almost be nice to have the legislative session go out on a note of "We were working on a bill to re-emphasize the Constitutional right to private speech" rather than a note of "We came for the pornographers, and you narco-terrorist child-porn-hiding cryptographers* are next on our List**!" ...especially if it gives us some slack time to improve the (serious) weakness of the positive-sounding parts of the bill. Is Senator Leahy up for re-election this round? ==== content-downsized material follows ==== [**It's especially critical not to be Next on the List during the first few months of the Buchanan administration....] [*and your little dog, too!] ====== #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215 pager 408-787-1281 # "At year's end, however, new government limits on Internet access threatened # to halt the growth of Internet use. [...] Government control of news media # generally continues to depend on self-censorship to regulate political and # social content, but the authorities also consistently penalize those who # exceed the permissible." - US government statement on China... "SigFiles of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist!"