News on Congressional Debate on Exon

[Robert A. Hayden]

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On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:

>    The agreement makes it all but certain that if legislation overhauling
>    the nation's telecommunications laws is enacted, it will contain some
>    of the most sweeping anti-smut provisions ever imposed on computer
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>    communications.
>    
>    The plan is part of negotiations on a larger telecommunications bill
>    and settles differences among House members who were deeply divided
>    over how to best limit children's exposure to smut carried on computer
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>    services, including the global network, Internet.

(rest of biased language deleted to keep my lunch down.  Suffice it to 
say that "smut" is such a loaded term than it's a wonder anyone can see 
anything withing the framework of the constitution.)

>    Indecent speech, unlike obscenity, is protected under the First
>    Amendment. Though the House plan doesn't yet specifically define
>    "indecent," the standard legal and regulatory definition says it is
>    material that describes in terms patently offensive, as measured by
>    contemporary community standard, sexual or excretory activities or
>    organ.

That's obscenity folks.  That _is_ legally defined. (Miller, wasn't it?)


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