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Originally posted by Colin
Rich, as a newbie I assume you haven't been in the business long enough to see the last attorney general defending internet censorship in the form of CDA. That's right. ACLU vs. Janet Reno. You weren't around when Clinton signed CDA into law, an unconstitutional abridgement of our rights. Why do I say it was Unconstitutional? Because the (Conservative majority no less) Supreme Court said so. You can thank them.
Before that was Reagan/Bush. Quite a few obscenity cases brought to trial. Again, no friend of the business.
And what would Kerry bring us? Another of those who voted "yea" on the unconstitutional CDA.
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Rich,
What do you think of the above? I noticed you ignored it. Do you even know what CDA was? It was a law passed that made it a crime punishable by two years in jail and/or a $250,000 fine for anyone to engage in speech that is "indecent" or "patently offensive" on computer networks if the speech can be viewed by a minor.
The ACLU filed suits to keep Reno from beginning the prosecutions.
Now, I'm not happy one bit that Ashhahahahaha has 32 prosecutors ready to prosecute obscenity but any reasoned non-partisan analysis would come to the conclusion that the last administration was just as bad and the only thing that stopped them was the Supreme Court.
Don't you agree?