RE: Congress hard at work: Cereal box regulation
Alan Olsen[SMTP:alan@clueserver.org] wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Packaging Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition Subcommittee hearing on "S.1233, the Product Package Protection Act: Keeping Offensive Material Out of our Cereal Boxes." Location: 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building. 2 p.m. Contact: 202-224-7703 http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary
Looking for the "Crack" in "snap, crackle, and pop"?
I would be interested in attending this just to try and figure out what the HELL they are worried about.
I don't think Safeway is going to start carrying "PornoPops" any time soon.
According to the Senate, you'd think wrong. I can't give the cite, but I saw this a couple days ago. Apparently, some yahoo was slipping racist pamplets into cereal boxes on a store shelf. Politicians have too much trouble justifying their existence to let a chance like this slip through. Peter Trei
Alan Olsen
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
I can't give the cite, but I saw this a couple days ago. Apparently, some yahoo was slipping racist pamplets into cereal boxes on a store shelf.
People used to do that at bookstores as well. It does not justify Senate hearings into how to restrict what goes into book. Oh. I forgot. It is for the Children(tm).
Politicians have too much trouble justifying their existence to let a chance like this slip through.
So far they seem to prove over and over why they should *not* exist. alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman
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