Re: FTC online workshop on privacy
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
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 23-May-96 Re: FTC online workshop on .. by Shabbir J. Safdar@vtw.or
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.
More to the point, the left and the right come together on privacy issues. Remember the Christian Coalition's take on national ID cards? "Mark of the Beast!" (Does anyone have an original cite for this? I also recall the CC opposing Clipper...) -Declan
The text of the Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act is available at the Epic "Children's Privacy" web site: http://epic.org/privacy/kids/ Read it before you trash it! ------------ Summary: Rep. Bob Franks (R-NJ) and Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) have introduced the Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act. The bill would establish fair information practices for personal information about kids and curb recent abuses in the direct marketing industry. The Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act would: Prohibit the sale or purchase of personal information about children without parental consent. Require list brokers and solicitors to disclose to parents, upon request, the source and content of personal information on file about their children. Require list brokers to disclose to parents, upon request, the names of persons or entities to whom they have distributed personal information on that parent's child. Prohibit prisoners and convicted sex criminals from processing the personal information of children. Prohibit any exchange of children's personal information that one has a reason to believe will be used to harm or abuse a child. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lauren Amy Gelman gelmanl@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu George Washington University gelman@epic.org Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program gelman@acm.org
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