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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: US Senate bill on computer-transmitted obscenity
Message-ID: <279@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 00:17:48 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.279
Posted: Tue Mar  4 00:17:48 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 03:16:07 EST
References: <228@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 26
Keywords: porn, child abuse, network
Summary: The bill is about child porn, mainly.

In article <228@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>>An IEEE publication lists a discussion of Senate Bill S. 1305, a bill
>>to establish penalties for the transmission by computer of obscene
>>matter.
>>	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
>First off, I think net.general was the *right* place for this.
>Yes, I believe that USENET itself stands as a shining example that
>we don't need no gummint folks telling us what's right and wrong
>on this issue.  ...

Thank you for approving, Barry.

Reading further into the NoVa/DC Scanner, one sees that the intent
of this bill is to prescribe specific penalties for use of computers
and computer networks to describe and trade locations of children
who are considered usable targets for sexual abuse.

Does this change anyone's attitude toward this bill?  (This was not
a test:  I wrote the first notice on the basis of the announcement
at the beginning of the Scanner; the rest was toward the middle.)

[Note that I still haven't read the bill, and so it could be still
different from what the expanded notice makes of it.]
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}