This post rated SB for Southern Babe. My credit rated NC-17. On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
Before Bill Clinton signed the Exon Internet Censorship Bill, Tipper Gore brought you Music Censorship. Uncle Frank says "<quote here>"
No she didn't! She brought us voluntary labelling, which is completely different. Some local governments have then tried to use those labels to commit censorship, but that's illegal. Ms. Gore's attitude is and always has been that parents should be responsible. Exon's CDA (Chicks, Dicks, and Arseholes) is different because it restricts content by law, including material protected by the first ammendment. The Administration has repeatedly stated its belief that those parts of the bill are unconsitutional, and does not intend to enforce them. Unfortunately, because the rider was attached to such an incredibly corporately popular bill, it would have been politically impossible to veto it for this, epecially since they believe that the courts will throw out the (ir)relevant parts. These corporate interests in getting the bill past also make's those who did vote against the bill in the house and senate especially deserving of praise; they won't be getting many Telebucks this year. maybe CypherPAC can reward them? Simon