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- Take a look at the CDA. Now i'm not going to go on forever about that
- mistake, for it has been most likely stamped into the memory of every
- single person on the net by now. I want to examine the idea of the CDA, the
- restricting of ones rights. Its nothing new to any of us. However, who
- would have thought? In the land of the free, the government would try to
- repress the unknown. Well anyone with half a brain for a start. That sort
- of thing has been going on for eternity. Freedom of speech? Any person who
- actually thinks that someone in this country can have complete freedom of
- speech, and that it is defined right there on that piece of liberty labeled
- the 'Constitution', needs a serious education enhancement. There will
- always be the matter of 'national security' which the government will always
- try to abuse in an attempt to supress the weak.
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- The question now rising in my mind, the one you too might have been
- considering, the question that the ACLU, the CIEC, the CDT, and many more
- have been considering ever since section V of S.652 had been writen, is
- what does the word 'FUCK' have to do with National Security? I suppose,
- taken to the extreme, this word might cause a Moral Extremist (such as one
- of our fine congress persons) to experience a stroke, resulting in the
- death of this person. If this could happen to one congress person, it might
- happen to a majority of them. In which case we would lose a large portion
- of Morally Conscience Congress Persons, which would cause chaos on the
- streets, and in turn an invasion from China. Of course, the above example
- will never happen on this time plane, so I can not rationalize how the word
- 'FUCK', and other indecent material, can be of national security concern,
- when obviously it is not. I also do not see how congress can make bills
- concerning it. It is not defined in the powers of congress to make laws
- which supress the speech of the United States people at the whim of their
- magic wands, and in no way can congress ever convince the people of this
- country (at least not the ones with working brain fluid) that this power
- comes from the 'elastic clause'. So what our congress did was undebatably
- unconstitutional. Now, the rest of the bill (The Telecommunications Bill)
- is what we consider the regulation of interstate commerce, which is
- perfectly acceptable.
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- Consider at this moment, that the congress was able to pass this bill
- in less than 24 hours, and that the President of the United States of
- America was able to sign this bill into law (possibly because he knew that
- with about 95% of Congress voting for this bill, they had the power to
- override his veto if he did in fact veto the bill. Or he could have just
- been after the votes for the upcoming presidential election) the following
- week. Which only a few days later the President admitted that parts of the
- bill are unconstitutional (posibly because the whitehouse was flooded with
- email?) and that it will not be enforced. It seems our fair President
- momentarily forgot that three and a half years ago he rose his right hand
- to the United States people and said "I do solemnly swear that I will
- faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will
- to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
- the United States." (Article II, Section I of the Constitution of the
- United States) The President of the United States of America admits to
- knowingly signing an unconstitutional bill into law. The way I see, the
- President and anyone in Congress who voted for the bill should be fired for
- supporting an unconstitutional bill. Since this sort of thing is completely
- unpractical the bill should have been immediately revoked. I would now like
- to sidetrack from this article to say that Mr. Clinton, for his actions
- stated above, will NOT be getting my vote in this up coming election
- (neither will my representative or either of my senators).
-
- Lets examine the possibility that the Government thought for just a
- second that they could in fact enforce this law. In order to complete such
- a diesaesed quest they would have to create a side-agency of the FCC, let
- us call this agency the IDC (Internet Decency Commission) or something of
- the sort. The first thing they might want to do is setup mail routers that
- all email must be mailed through. If the government could actually
- accomplish such a goal, within a year, and with only five budget increases,
- I would donate 90% of my income for the rest of my life to them. This
- brings me to the only upside of the CDA. It does say in the law that one
- can only be fined and sentenced if they _knowingly_ send indecent material
- to a _minor_. So, instead of the mail routers, they would have to setup
- something along the lines of wiretapping (uni-user sniffer logs). If a
- mother happens to find out that her 12 year old daughter is hot chatting
- and trading smut with a 32 year old man in another state, she would inform
- the IDC, beat her child, sell her computer, beat her child, and go on a
- looser talk show about how "My child was abused on the information
- superhighway and I won't stand for it!" which would present me with a great
- opportunity for using all that plutonium I have sitting in my closet. The
- IDC would then begin monitoring all email sent to and from the little girls
- account, the slightly less than intelligent man from another state, and
- everyone else on those users domains just for the hell of it. As soon as
- indecent material is sent from the man to the girl (who will not receive
- the mail because her mother chained her to the wall and stuck a chastity
- belt on her) the IDC can bust him. Which would probably include the SS
- bashing into the mans house with all sorts of neat weapons I wouldn't mind
- owning, then taking anything from the house that they wouldn't mind owning,
- and of course, anything related to the case. This man would then be fined
- the infamous $250,000 and sent to jail for a couple years. This sort of
- thing of course is possible, but very improbable.
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- Think of all the stuff that would have to go into creating the IDC.
- They would have to get a big check, or put it on the black budget (like the
- NSA, my heros). After that they would have to buy a big piece of land (like
- the CIA, my idols). Then they would have to setup a huge office building
- that would cost a lot of money to build (like the Puzzle Palace). Then buy
- a whole bunch of neat computers (Suns, SGIs and Crays, oh my). Get a
- domain registry (IDC.GOV). Make secret deals with foreign countries, MIBs,
- Aliens, create some UFOs, design some new weapons, and assassinate the
- president (so they don't feel left out). I am sure you can think of
- thousands of other things that would have to be done. This sort of money
- spending would not look good when all the politicians are screaming for a
- balanced budget. And it would just present an agency that would abuse its
- powers like all the rest of them. All in all, it is pretty much a guarantee
- that the Government cannot do anything about indecent material on the net,
- short of kicking everyone off of it. They could try that, rename it back to
- ARPAnet and then tell everyone to start their own world wide network if
- they want one so bad. Maybe then service providers would pour out the
- amount of money needed into running such a network, instead of leeching off
- of what little bandwith is actually present (<cough cough> AOL <cough
- cough> Netcom <cough cough> The Well <cough cough>).
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- Overall the CDA is just a failed attempt at big-brotherism. Part of the
- Telecommunications Law (the CDA) has been found unconstitutional in a
- Philadelphia federal court. Most likely the law will continue to climb up
- the federal court ladder until the Supreme Court does a Judicial Review of
- the Law and that will be the end of it.
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- Rage-303.tr
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- Rosencrantz: Fire!
- [Guildenstern jumps up]
- Guildenstern: Where?
- Rosencrantz: It's all right -- I'm demonstrating the misuse
- of free speech. To prove that it exists.
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- -From: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
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