=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A Network Orange ---------------- 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. 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. 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. 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 ( AOL Netcom The Well ). 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. Rage-303.tr Rosencrantz: Fire! [Guildenstern jumps up] Guildenstern: Where? Rosencrantz: It's all right -- I'm demonstrating the misuse of free speech. 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