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                Date: 1998-10-17
                 
                 
                US: Spermajaeger fuer Moral  im Netz
                
                 
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      q/depesche  98.10.17/1 
updating anno schnee 
 
US-Kongress: Spermajäger für Moral im Netz 
 
Erinnert sich noch wer an das Communication Decency  
Amendment aus anno schnee 96? Das erste echte  
Zensurgesetz in der Geschichte des Internet ward vom  
Supreme Court alsobald abgeschmettert. Es waren dieselben  
Abgeordneten im US- Kongress, die für die Publikation des  
Sperma & Zigarrenpornos Lewinsky/Clinton im Netz  
verantwortlich waren. Jetzt sorgen sich grade wieder um die  
Moral der Jugend & wollen genau das unter Strafe stellen,  
was sie selber getan haben. 
Zum Censorship Busting diesmal angetreten: ACLU & EPIC 
 
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 Elizabeth Weise 
1998 OCT 16 By Civil liberties groups are poised to challenge  
as soon as next week a controversial Internet provision added  
to the mammoth spending bill before Congress. 
 
The provision requires commercial Web sites to block  
children's access to material deemed ''harmful to minors'' or  
face criminal penalties. The Senate had earlier passed  
similar legislation. 
 
''We intend to file suit as soon as legally permissible, which  
could be as early as next week,'' says the ACLU's chief  
counsel, Chris Hansen. 
... 
''If Web sites have to verify the age of those receiving  
particular material at a site, it means that people have to  
identify themselves and records have to be kept,'' says David  
Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which  
expects to be a co-counsel on the suit. 
 
The bill's author, Rep. Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, counters that the  
courts have traditionally recognized a difference between  
what adults and children are allowed to see. 
... 
An analysis released by the Justice Department found  
serious constitutional problems with the legislation and  
raised concerns that it would draw resources away from more  
important law enforcement efforts aimed at protecting  
children. 
... 
''They were not in a very strong political position to be seen  
out in the open - or even behind closed doors - as facilitating  
pornographers,'' Oxley said. 
.. 
Opponents say the measure is similar to the first Internet anti- 
pornography legislation, the Communications Decency Act  
(CDA), which the Supreme Court overturned last year as a  
violation of freedom of speech. 
 
Oxley replies that his language takes a much narrower view,  
applying only to commercial Web sites instead of the entire  
Internet and using the ''harmful to minors'' standard instead of  
a broader obscenity standard.  ''We bent over backwards to  
correct errors in the CDA,'' he says. 
 
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