Congress hard at work: Cereal box regulation

[Trei, Peter]

> Alan Olsen[SMTP:alan at 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