From: IN%"declan+@CMU.EDU" "Declan B. McCullagh" 15-FEB-1996 01:33:25.17

Since you don't understand the way Federal criminal charges work, there's no reason I should take your argument seriously. (Hint: The *U.S. Attorney*, or an AUSA, files charges, not you, me, or a random "athiest.")

How about a lawsuit by the atheist against the site? Since the CDA claims that such material is harmful, and tries to make it illegal, such a lawsuit would appear to have grounds - especially if the atheist has a child that is "surfing the Net." Now, they're unlikely to _win_, but the atheist can cost them some money _and_ make the CDA look stupid. If I were in the American Atheist Foundation or some such, I'd do such a lawsuit against a Christian Right organization that had supported the CDA. Of course, the selective enforcement will be a good argument in favor of the law being unconstitutional. Crypto relevance? Criminal laws aren't the only things that a crypto-anarchial system will make less effective. Civil lawsuits (under things like libel) also will be. I'd call this a good change. -Allen