There's actually an interesting parallel here. If you look at the Dworkin "ban pornography because speech is action" crowd, they often end up on the same side of things as the Christian Coalition "ban porn because it drives you to ungodly acts" crowd. They both happily support legislation that would ban such images. The left and the right move so far off the edges of the scales that they come around and meet each other on the same side of the issue. -Shabbir J. Safdar * Online Representative * Voters Telecomm. Watch (VTW) http://www.vtw.org/ * Defending Your Rights In Cyberspace "E. ALLEN SMITH" writes:
It's unsurprising that some of the same groups backing the CDA are backing this, since they used danger to children as an excuse for it. (A rather transparent one, given the actions vs Compuserve). I am disappointed in EPIC for cooperating with them.
From: IN%"declan+@CMU.EDU" "Declan B. McCullagh" 22-MAY-1996 17:46:10.71
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 22-May-96 Re: FTC online workshop on .. by Declan McCullagh@CMU.EDU
The legislation being introduced at 10:30 am will restrict selling mailing lists with childrens' names and other identifying info on them, including email lists. Another attempt to regulate the net, or a good thing?
Whoops. I should have said the press conference happened at 10:30 am. The bill will be introduced in both houses later this week.
Interesting press conference. Enough is Enough! took quite a bit of time to rant about the dangers of the Internet. Pedophiles, chat rooms, illegal pornography.
You get the idea.
Quite. -Allen