[ObCrypto: Crypto may be the only answer if the ACLU loses its court case...] ====================================================== = RALLY AGAINST THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT!!!! = = = = 12:00 Noon Saturday Feb. 10, 1996 = = Lafeyette Park, Washington, D.C. = = Next to the WHITE HOUSE = = = ====================================================== Congress has passed laws calling for sweeping censorship of computer networks, and the President is ready to sign it. Are YOU just going to sit back and take it? Join hundreds of D.C. Internet users in rallying against the Communications Decency Act and Internet Censorship. Find out about the ACLU court case to challenge the CDA. ...And tell the Congress to repeal the CDA!!!!!!!!! Confirmed Speakers include: o Jonathan Wallace (A plaintiff in the ACLU court case against the CDA, and Editor of The Ethical Spectacle) o Jonah Seiger (Policy Analyst, The Center for Democracy and Technology) o Kaz Vorpal (Owner of UltaPlex, a local Internet service provider) o Mark Mangan (co-author of "Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace") o William Winter (Communications Director, National Libertarian Party) o Plus open mike time to make your own views heard! Bring signs, banners, and tell your friends! For more information, send email to tedwards@wam.umd.edu. "With this act of Congress, the very same materials which are legally available today in book stores and libraries would be illegal if posted on World Wide Web sites or usenet newsgroups. If signed by President Clinton as expected, this bill will transform the Internet overnight from the freest communications medium to the most heavily regulated medium in the United States." - The Center for Democracy and Technology Policy Post 2:5.