Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 13-Feb-96 Re: Spin Control Alert (LI .. by jamesd@echeque.com
Not obvious to me.
While the religious right clearly supported the push to regulate the internet, the main push seemed to me to come from the existing mass media, primarily the three big TV channels.
The religious right did not *support* the "push to regulate the Internet" -- they drafted, defended, and pushed through the damn CDA! Did you *read* the message I posted, with information about how the religious right/anti-porn groups created and then worked to push this legislation through Congress? Did you *read* the files in my Rimm archive, detailing how an editor at the Georgetown Law Journal worked to get Rimm's "research" approved for publication? Did you know that he's a leading anti-porn activist? Did you *read* Mike Godwin's collection of articles about how the religious right organied the anti-porn scare? Certainly the mass media were complicit, but they served a supporting role. -Declan