-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
The agreement makes it all but certain that if legislation overhauling the nation's telecommunications laws is enacted, it will contain some of the most sweeping anti-smut provisions ever imposed on computer ^^^^ communications.
The plan is part of negotiations on a larger telecommunications bill and settles differences among House members who were deeply divided over how to best limit children's exposure to smut carried on computer ^^^^ services, including the global network, Internet.
(rest of biased language deleted to keep my lunch down. Suffice it to say that "smut" is such a loaded term than it's a wonder anyone can see anything withing the framework of the constitution.)
Indecent speech, unlike obscenity, is protected under the First Amendment. Though the House plan doesn't yet specifically define "indecent," the standard legal and regulatory definition says it is material that describes in terms patently offensive, as measured by contemporary community standard, sexual or excretory activities or organ.
That's obscenity folks. That _is_ legally defined. (Miller, wasn't it?) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: PGP Signed with PineSign 2.2 iQCVAwUBMMcOhDokqlyVGmCFAQGRAAP+MUoTEogvkbpsjRhJKpfPkBgieXyY5atn piD13JM/2Ev3cW3tj+HrxSUayb1n3jfXuu5wyVAC8ZFtjEHSKENALGt1ND7D8vQu ZjdIohX+aK6BzT924GUlB0hGmoqPDUD7loz45/rYvtlJUt7HKnZHdniDgVsadvuG T2mtD05dg9c= =w5Q9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu \ /__ Finger for Geek Code Info <=> Finger for PGP Public Key \/ / -=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=- \/ http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden/Welcome.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GED/J d-- s:++>: a-- C++(++++)$ ULUO++ P+>+++ L++ !E---- W+(---) N+++ o+ K+++ w+(---) O- M+$>++ V-- PS++(+++)>$ PE++(+)>$ Y++ PGP++ t- 5+++ X++ R+++>$ tv+ b+ DI+++ D+++ G+++++>$ e++$>++++ h r-- y+** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------