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| <TITLE>CDA II</TITLE> | |
| <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="NAMBLA's goal is to end the oppression of men and boys who have mutually consensual relationships. NAMBLA's membership is open to everyone sympathetic to personal freedom."> | |
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| <CENTER><P><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT SIZE=+3>Another "Communications | |
| Decency Act"? </FONT></FONT></B></P></CENTER> | |
| <P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/br/"><IMG SRC="br.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=76 WIDTH=112></A><FONT COLOR="#FB3504"><FONT SIZE=+1> Yet | |
| another "Communications Decency Act"! Suit has been | |
| filed in Federal court to stop the tampering with communication on the | |
| Internet. This legislation contains most of the unconstitutional | |
| flaws of the original CDA: </FONT></FONT></P> | |
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| <LI><FONT SIZE=+1>Though the sponsors of CDA II claim it is intended | |
| to address only commercial pornographers intentionally targeting minors, | |
| the actual language of the bill is vague and overbroad, and will sweep | |
| in much more than explicit for-profit visual materials. The bill will censor | |
| a wide variety of legitimate, protected expression, for adults as well | |
| as children. </FONT><BR> | |
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| </LI> | |
| <LI><FONT SIZE=+1>Congress's own posting of the Starr report would likely | |
| violate this Act of Congress. </FONT><BR> | |
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| </LI> | |
| <LI><FONT SIZE=+1>What is appropriate for some 5-year-olds is not the same | |
| thing as what is appropriate for some 16-year-olds, and this bill fails | |
| to take account of this basic fact. </FONT><BR> | |
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| </LI> | |
| <LI><FONT SIZE=+1>Intentionally providing a minor with "harmful matter", | |
| online or offline, is already illegal under general obscenity and harmful-to-minor | |
| statutes. Congress cannot expand this to a ban on all online publication | |
| (which the bill amounts to; the Supreme Court has already found that the | |
| kind of age verification this bill, like the CDA, calls for is impractical). | |
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| <FONT COLOR="#FB3504">A broad coalition has formed to defend Internet freedoms. | |
| </FONT><FONT COLOR="#F02C0F">To find out the current status of this | |
| campaign and learn what you can do to defend the Internet, click here: | |
| <BR> | |
| <BR> | |
| </FONT> <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/br/">http://www.eff.org/br/</A></FONT></LI> | |
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| <P><A HREF="index.htm"><IMG SRC="m0p7nau7.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=95 WIDTH=95></A><FONT COLOR="#8080FF">Copyright | |
| © NAMBLA, 1999. All rights reserved.</FONT><BR> | |
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