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[ Prev | Next | Index ] Wed Feb 21 22:58:24 MST 1996 :
dberliN@peddie.k12.nj.us, Ocean Township, New Jersey USA
Reality
Daniel Berlin
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I had heard of the Communications Decency Act a while back, when it
was in it's early stages, and being involved in working on a term
paper, and various other things that I felt more important at the
time, didn't pay much attention to it. I had always figured it was
another attempt by congress to regulate something that would be shot
down by people who knew what it really meant. This meaning being the
destruction of free speech on the Internet.
And Then I woke up.
On the morning of February 8th, I had about 100 some-odd new inbox
messages from various Listserv's that I subscribe to, and considered
it normal.
After deleting most of them, I noticed I had about 10 or so messages
from people with a subject of CDA, and one or two about our web page,
and something about black.
I read them.
And a reality hit me in the face quite hard.
A reality I did not want to face.
The bill I had not paid much attention too, had been passed, and
signed into law.
It was then I realized that I was silent when I should have screamed.
My mind was somewhere else besides classes that day.
I was thinking of all the ramifications of this bill, and what it
meant.
I realized that this destruction of the first amendment had been made
possible by a simple flaw.
Knowledge is power.
Congress and the Senate were attempting to exert power over something
they had no knowledge of.
I could not justify the landslide vote in any other way.
If those without knowledge refuse to stop irresponsibly wielding
power, then it is the job of the people affected to take a stand
against them.
No longer should we be silent.
The time has come for screaming. f
Daniel Berlin
16 Year Old
Citizen of the US
And don't you congressmen and congresswomen forget it.
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