Declan McCullagh writes:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:06:33 -0600 From: Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com> To: "'fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu'" <fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu> Subject: Why the White amendment is a good idea
The NETCenter is a great idea. [blah blah]
The passage of this amendment helps ensure that the terms of this debate remain centered on our civil liberties -- not kiddie porn. If we are going to win this argument (and the stakes are very large) we have to keep this debate framed with our criteria.
Follow your own advice. All this crap about NETCenter has nothing to do with our civil liberties. Whether NETCenter is a good idea or not is a completely separable issue (which I see Tim May just covered thoroughly), and is merely a fig leaf offered to spineless Congresscritters to deflect some of the "criticism" they might otherwise be subjected to on the law enforcement "issue". The fact that White offers it shows that he is just as spineless. We shouldn't have to "trick" Congress into doing the right thing, or provide cover for them either. As you say, though, let's keep this debate framed with our criteria: Do you, Congressman, support the constitutional guarantee of free speech, or not?