| Andrzej Adam Filip 2004-11-23, 8:27 am |
| <czef63-7du-7@anfi.homeunix.com> cancelled by originator "Andrzej Adam Filip" <anfi@priv.onet.pl> ( http://anfi.homeunix.net/ )
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On June 19, 1997, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain introduced
his own bill (Senator Kerrey co-sponsor) which parrots the Clinton
administration's position and forced it to replace the Pro-Code bill.
He banged the Drum of War against Child Pornography.
* http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly, By Declan McCullagh
*
* In the end, it was child pornography that derailed encryption legislation
* in the U.S. Senate and dealt a bitter defeat to crypto supporters.
*
* Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), committee chair and chief sponsor of the
* measure, led the attack, saying Congress must "stop child pornography
* on the Internet."
*
* He warned that "allowing encryption to be exported would permit child
* pornographers to use it."
*
* "If it's being used for child pornography? Are we going to say
* that's just fine? That's it's just business? I don't think so."
*
* Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO) tried to disagree. "It's like photography. We're
* not going to [ban] photography if someone takes dirty pictures."
*
* At this point, one of the more deaf committee members asked,
* "Pornography? Are we going to ban pornography?"
*
* The Senate Commerce Committee then approved McCain's bill.
*
* For a committee whose bailiwick is commerce, the senators seemed somewhat
* detached from their mandate with business taking a backseat.
*
Thank you once again, oh Free World Leaders, for that intelligent discourse.
* The New York Times, June 15 1997
*
* "Washington Kidnaps Dick and Jane - See How Washington Uses Dick and Jane"
*
* These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or
* on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians.
*
* Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration
* added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies."
Color me cynical.
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