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Computer underground Digest Fri Mar 21, 1997 Volume 9 : Issue 22
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ISSN 1004-042X
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Editor: Jim Thomas (cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu)
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News Editor: Gordon Meyer (gmeyer@sun.soci.niu.edu)
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Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
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Shadow Master: Stanton McCandlish
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Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
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Ian Dickinson
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Field Agent Extraordinaire: David Smith
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Cu Digest Homepage: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest
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CONTENTS, #9.22 (Fri, Mar 21, 1997)
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File 1--SUPREMES: Report From the Protest Lines
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File 2--SUPREMES: Reports from the Netizen; Netly News
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File 3--SUPREMES: Pointers to Transcript, More Coverage
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File 4--Reno v. ACLU SupCt Transcript online
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File 5--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 13 Dec, 1996)
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CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN
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THE CONCLUDING FILE AT THE END OF EACH ISSUE.
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:07:19 -0800
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From: --Todd Lappin-- <telstar@wired.com>
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Subject: File 1--SUPREMES: Report From the Protest Lines
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THE CDA DISASTER NETWORK
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March 19, 1997
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Keith Glass <salgak@huskynet.com> didn't have a ticket to hear today's oral
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arguments, but he nevertheless made the trek to the Supreme Court
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to participate in the anti-CDA demonstrations that took place
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this morning on the Court steps.
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Keith's first-hand account of the rally -- and of the pro-CDA
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folks who also showed up to demonstrate -- gives a great sense of
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what the scene was like this morning, so I'm passing it along.
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Hope you enjoy, and many thanks to Keith for his report.
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--Todd Lappin-->
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Section Editor
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WIRED Magazine
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Date--Wed, 19 Mar 1997 16:18:28 -0500
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From--"Keith A. Glass" <salgak@huskynet.com>
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Subject--Report from the Supreme Court, and our opposition (AKA Nuremberg '97)
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Greetings and felicitations !!
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I just got back from the demonstration outside the Supreme Court this morning.
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It was a REALLY nasty morning in DC: a cold snow-rain combo, temperature
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hovering around freezing (Naturally, about the time the demonstrations
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ended around 11:30, it stopped. Go figure. . .). Even so, when I got in
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line at 6:55 AM, there were over 120 people in front of me. ALL of them
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seemed to be for the overturning of the CDA. The line ended up at about 250
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people, before it got out that as members of the Supreme Court Bar had
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priority for seating, and there were 75+ of them in THEIR line, that only
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10-20 or so people in line would actually get seats for the trial.
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Everyone else either could take the tour, with three minutes in the Court,
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or go home.
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Not too long after that, Glenn Haumann of BiblioBytes and Jonah Seiger of
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CDT appeared on the scene, and signs showed up soon thereafter.
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BTW, for those interested, the signs were:
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"The Internet is not Television"
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"I'm a Better Parent than Uncle Sam"
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"The First Amendment Applies to the Internet"
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With that out of the way, we took our handful of activists (about 10 or so
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at the time) and a large bunch of High School students who were waiting in
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line for the Court (about 30-40, in my estimate).
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For perhaps 45 minutes, we were the only demonstrators there. Favorable
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reaction from most of the crowd. The "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, the CDA has got to
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go!!" cheer got a good response as well. We got a LOT of good press in
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this period, mostly radio and newspapers, but also some local Washington
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and Baltimore TV, as well as a few Network Cameras.
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Around 9:30 or so, Pro-CDA demonstrators started to arrive, first from the
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"Maryland Coalition Against Pornography", and later, from "Enough is
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Enough", who brought hand-made signs, banners, and a bullhorn. . .more on
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THEM later. . . The last group which appeared was a small contingient from
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Concerned Women for America.
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Both our group and their group demonstrated in peaceful coexistence for
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perhaps 30 minutes. Then the Other Side started heckling our people (using
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epithets such as "witch", "devil-worshipper", "porno-kings",
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"child-molestors" . . . and those are the ones I heard . . . oh yes, and
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my favorite: "Slaves of Pornography". . . . . )
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This was followed by their circle of demonstrators (about 30-40 or so,
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including a oddly dressed man wearing an over-tunic of what appeared to be
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photos from a fashion magazine, a broken plastic step-stool with the
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remains of some sort of printed circuit card glued to it as a chest-plate,
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a styrofoam set of wings on his back, and brandishing a toy bow and arrow.
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I **STILL** don't get it. . . .) starting to push ours back, and
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incidentally, closer to the cameras that were setting up for the
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after-hearing Press Conference. . . And their chant of "Children Don't
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Need This Stuff Enough is Enough !!". . . for hours and hours, and with
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the help of the bullhorn, they were drowning us out. They obviously didn't
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want anyone to hear OUR message. No surprise, that. . .
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About this time, I took a short break, and chatted with a few of the
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Supreme Court Police. The uniform opinion: The Other Side was worse than
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even the Abortion Protesters.
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And THEN, it came to me. Why they felt familiar. It was the Nuremberg
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Rally, 1997 edition. We anti-CDA activists were the forces of darkness, an
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evil group of soul-starved porno-fiends. We were the Enemy, not just the
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Opponent. . .
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In a relatively short time, you'll know how the Hearing went, and in July
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we'll learn the decision of the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, this
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ends the report from the frontlines. . . .
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**This article is copyright 1997, Keith A. Glass <salgak@huskynet.com>
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Permission is granted to reproduce this article in full or in part,
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provided that credit is given and you forward me a copy of what you did
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with it. . . **
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 16:27:21 -0800
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From: --Todd Lappin-- <telstar@wired.com>
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Subject: File 2--SUPREMES: Reports from the Netizen; Netly News
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THE CDA DISASTER NETWORK
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March 19, 1997
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Two final -- and authoritative -- reports from today's Supreme
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Court hearing:
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In the first, John Heilemann of The Netizen argues that "although
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there are few more treacherous occupations than reading the
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court's tea leaves, the behavior of the justices hinted strongly
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that the CDA is dead meat."
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Next, Declan McCullagh and Noah Robischon from the Netly News
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describe how "U.S. Supreme Court justices pummeled government
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proponents of the Communications Decency Act" and give some hint
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as to how the CDA's supporters in Congress plan to respond after
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the Court issues its ruling during the summer.
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Read on for all the details...
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--Todd Lappin-->
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Section Editor
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WIRED Magazine
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The Netizen: http://www.netizen.com
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Net Decency Law Looks Like Dead Meat
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by John Heilemann
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2:13pm 19.Mar.97.PST In a lively, fractious, sometimes-funny
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70-minute session, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday
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heard arguments in the case of the Communications
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Decency Act, aka Reno v. ACLU. The case, which will decide
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the constitutionality of the year-old (but never enforced)
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federal ban on online indecency, marks the first time the
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court has been asked to rule on the question of free speech
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in cyberspace. And although there are few more
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treacherous occupations than reading the court's tea leaves,
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the behavior of the justices hinted strongly that the CDA is
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dead meat.
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Arguing the case for the government, Deputy Solicitor
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General Seth Waxman had his hands full. Waxman spoke
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first, and was subjected to a steady barrage of plainly
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skeptical questions from Justices Sandra Day O'Connor,
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Steven Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter,
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Anthony Kennedy, and John Paul Stevens.
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In a sharp tone of voice, O'Connor suggested that,
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considering the nature of the Net, the CDA's use of the
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adverb "knowingly" - as in, to "knowingly" transmit indecent
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material to minors - was "virtually worthless."
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Breyer expressed, again and again, his concerns that the
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CDA would turn teenagers who use the Net to talk about
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their sexual experiences into federal felons. ("You mean
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there's not a high school student exception?" cracked
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Justice Antonin Scalia.)
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Kennedy asked Waxman whether he thought it would be
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permissible to ban adults from smutty talk in public parks
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just because kids might overhear them - a question that led
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to a colloquy in which Waxman claimed, incredibly, that the
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Net was not a "public forum."
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And when Souter's probing about whether parents could be
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imprisoned for letting their kids look at racy stuff online led
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Waxman to claim that parents weren't the CDA's real
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targets, Souter accused the government's lawyer of
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"grabbing exceptions out of thin air."
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Bruce Ennis, the lawyer for the anti-CDA forces, had his
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share of tough questions, too - only almost all of them came
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from Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Scalia. As ever,
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the latter was particularly nettlesome: sharp, acerbic, and
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terribly clever.
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When Ennis noted that screening by age was only
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technologically possible in one corner of cyberspace - the
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Web - Scalia asked what was wrong with asking speakers
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who want to be naughty to do it there. When Ennis said that
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even on the Web the cost of such screening was
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"prohibitively expensive," Scalia pointed out that the
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definition of "prohibitive" depends on the goal you're trying
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to achieve. And, as if he were laying the groundwork for
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future battles, Scalia repeatedly argued that with the rapid
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pace of change - "I throw away my computer every five
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years," he said - whatever is technologically impossible or
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prohibitively expensive today might not be that way for long.
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"Isn't it possible that this statute is unconstitutional today ...
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but won't be unconstitutional two weeks from now?" Scalia
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asked.
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But while Scalia and Rehnquist tag-teamed Ennis, the rest
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of the justices asked him few questions, and the questions
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they did ask were of a much friendlier tenor than had been
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the case with Waxman.
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The court will decide the case and announce its decision - it
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can throw out the entire CDA or tailor a narrower ruling that
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will leave pieces intact - by the end of its term early this
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summer.
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Before Wednesday's arguments, the question of just how
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Net-savvy the justices were had been the subject of much
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speculation, little of it kind.
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Chris Hansen of the ACLU, who was Ennis's co-counsel,
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made only one prediction going into the arguments: that
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there would be no questions about what he called "cgi
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script," a reference to the ubiquitous technology on the
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Web that can be used to screen users by age. But,
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amazingly, cgi scripting was the subject of the first question
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of the day, from O'Connor, who wanted to know the precise
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percentage of Web sites actually are equipped to use it.
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Indeed, though there was the occasional moment of
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technological confusion, most of the justices seemed fairly
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switched on - if not regarding the details, then at least
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regarding the big picture of what the Net is all about.
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Breyer, in particular, drew an analogy between the Net and
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the telephone system; even Scalia went on at length about
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how the court was in uncharted territory. And the very fact
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that so many of the justices took active part in the
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discussion - all of them, actually, except for Justice Clarence
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Thomas, who sat through much of the proceeding with his
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head resting on his hand, stifling yawns - was a sign that the
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court recognized the stakes of the case before it.
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In the closing minutes of his argument, Ennis was cruising.
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Compared with Waxman, he had been fairly successful at
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getting all his arguments on the table; even after dodging
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the ink pellets flicked by the Frankenstein and Don
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Corleone of archconservative jurisprudence, Ennis found
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time to pick up on Breyer's telephone analogy, and to
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expand on the parents-in-the-slammer hypothetical that
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Souter had put to Waxman. At least three times he was able
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to state his central claim: that, in the guise of protecting
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children, the CDA operates as a ban on adult speech that is
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constitutionally protected.
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After Ennis finished, Waxman rose to give his rebuttal -
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using the time he had saved from his first go-round. He had
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five points to make. Rehnquist told him he had one minute.
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In the middle of his second point, Souter interrupted him,
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and in the middle of his response to Souter, Rehnquist cut
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him off and brought the show to a close. It was that kind of
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day for the government.
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The Netly News Network
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http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,744,00.html
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@The Supreme Court
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March 19, 1997
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By Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com)
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Noah Robischon (noah@pathfinder.com)
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U.S. Supreme Court justices pummeled
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government proponents of the Communications
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Decency Act this morning during a review of the
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law that will set new standards for free speech
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in the 21st century.
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The notorious CDA, reviled throughout
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cyberspace since the day it was signed by
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President Clinton in February 1996, would
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criminalize the ill-defined category of
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"indecent" communications on the Net. A
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Philadelphia federal court struck down the law a
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year ago.
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Justice Antonin Scalia called the lawsuit,
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brought by the American Civil Liberties Union
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against Attorney General Janet Reno, "a
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distinctive form of First Amendment argument
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unlike others" because it covers an uncharted and
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rapidly developing communications medium. "That's
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a new case for us," he said.
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Deputy Solicitor General Seth Waxman argued
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that the CDA merely established boundaries on the
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Net and made it harder for pornographic material
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to fall into the hands of minors. He likened the
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law to a cyber-zoning ordinance; without it, he
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said, the Internet "threatens to give every child
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a free pass to get into every adult movie theater
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or bookstore in the country."
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But less than a minute after Waxman started,
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the justices impatiently plowed into his
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presentation. Justice Stephen Breyer demanded:
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"Suppose a group of high school students decides
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to talk over the Internet and they want to talk
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about their sexual experiences. I mean, that's
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been known to happen in high school." Would they
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"be guilty of a federal crime?"
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Justice Antonin Scalia cut in, joking:
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"There's no high school student exemption?"
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"You might find it in the legislative
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history, but I do not," a chagrined Waxman
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replied.
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For much of the 70-minute hearing, the
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discussion swirled around the question of how
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netizens could comply with the CDA. Waxman
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claimed that the act includes a battery of ways
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to protect a person from prosecution -- visitors
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to "indecent" web sites would be required to
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provide credit-card numbers, for instance. But
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was unmoved. "How
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does that fit in with the use of web sites by
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noncommercial users, libraries?" she asked.
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Justice David Souter wondered if the
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portions of the act banning the "display" of
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indecent materials would imprison parents. "I
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take it a parent who allows his computer to be
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used by a child viewing indecent material, that
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parent would go to prison," he said. When Waxman
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demurred, Scalia took up the chase. "No... One of
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those offenses is a display offense," he pointed
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out. Chastened, Waxman replied, "I see your
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point."
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Bruce Ennis, arguing on behalf of the ACLU
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and American Library Association coalitions,
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contended that the CDA bans speech, even for
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adults; is not as effective as blocking software;
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and is unconstitutionally vague.
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Justice Scalia, who noted that he uses a
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computer, pointed out that technology is rapidly
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changing. "So much of your argument is based on
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what's currently available," he said to Ennis.
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"This technology is changing so quickly. Is it
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possible that this statute is unconstitutional
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now but could be [constitutional] in four or five
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years?" Ennis replied: "Not as it's written."
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During a subsequent press conference, Ennis
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added that indeed, the technology is changing,
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and is giving parents more control over what
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their children do and see online. "Precisely
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because the technology is changing, the
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government should not be trying to enforce this
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law," he said. The ACLU attorneys who joined
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Ennis were grinning: the justices appeared to
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understand the nature of communications online,
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noted that teens have rights, and focused on free
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speech, not porn.
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After the hearing, the anti-CDA protestors
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who had braved a chill rain to chant "Hey-ho, the
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CDA has got to go!" were displaced by a larger,
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bullhorn-wielding group of anti-porn advocates.
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One sign demanded, "Don't sacrifice my child on
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the altar of the First Amendment."
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One of the most vocal protestors was
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19-year-old Berkeley student Kenritsu Yamamoto,
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who happened to be dressed as a Net cupid,
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complete with angel wings and a circuit board
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breastplate. He was acting in the Pure Love
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Alliance's skit illustrating how pornography and
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"Net abduction" harms children. In the skit,
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Yamamoto accidentally kills a small child to
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demonstrate the dangers of a world without the
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CDA. "If a small child buys porn at a 7-11, then
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the store can be held accountable," said
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Yamamoto. "But on the Net, there is no
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accountability."
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A few steps away, Donna Rice Hughes, Enough
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Is Enough's communications director, was
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explaining why she thought the CDA should be
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upheld. "Without the CDA, Larry Flynt can make
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his teasers and centerfolds available to kids on
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the Internet," she said. Across from Hughes stood
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Bruce Taylor, the lawyer who argued against Flynt
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in the Supreme Court more than a decade ago. "The
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technology is advancing so well that the court is
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going to see that people can use this stuff
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without violating the law," he said.
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If the Supreme Court disagrees and strikes
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down the CDA, some members of Congress have
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pledged to try again. Netly cornered Sen. Charles
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Grassley (R-Iowa), a stauch supporter of the CDA,
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in the basement of the Capitol after the
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argument. What would he do? "How to do this I
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don't know, but our objective hasn't changed," he
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replied. "Some way, somehow, we will have to find
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a constitutional way of doing this for kids,
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protecting them from porn the way we did for
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printed material." Rep. Bob Goodlatte
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(R-Virginia) says he hopes the high court "will
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give the Congress some very clear guidance."
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But any Congressional tinkering will come
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after the Supreme Court decides. A ruling is
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expected in early July.
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[McCullagh is one of the plaintiffs in the
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lawsuit challenging the CDA.]
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:33:51 -0800
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From: --Todd Lappin-- <telstar@wired.com>
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Subject: File 3--SUPREMES: Pointers to Transcript, More Coverage
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THE CDA DISASTER NETWORK
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March 20, 1997
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It's the morning after, so I thought I'd pass along some handy
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pointers to more information about yesterday's Supreme Court
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arguments -- including a transcript of the session, and
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interesting press coverage in today's Washington Post and New
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York Times.
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Hope you enjoy,
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--Todd Lappin-->
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Section Editor
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WIRED Magazine
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE ARGUMENT:
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It's not quite the same as having been there, but nevertheless... the ACLU
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has published a full transcript of yesterday's Supreme Court arguments on
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their Website. The document is big -- 28 pages when I printed it out --
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but its a fascinating read.
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The transcript is available at
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http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/trial/sctran.html
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THE WASHINGTON POST:
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In today's Washington Post, Joan Biskupic and John Schwartz write:
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"While the justices' comments may not reflect where they will end up on
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this potentially landmark case, Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice
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William H. Rehnquist seemed most in favor of the law. Justices O'Connor
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and Anthony M. Kennedy were also sympathetic, but less so, and both of
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these usual swing justices raised free speech concerns.
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"Showing the greatest support for the challengers were Breyer and
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Justices David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice John Paul
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Stevens, who wrote a 1978 opinion allowing government to limit indecency
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on the radio but who has generally liberal tendencies, was hard to read.
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Justice Clarence Thomas did not ask any questions.
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Full story at:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/supcourt/supcourt.htm
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THE NEW YORK TIMES:
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Linda Greenhouse covered the CDA arguments for the Times. She writes:
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"The lawyers who argued Wednesday are among the most highly regarded of
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Supreme Court advocates, and the session was nuanced and fast moving.
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The justices added 10 minutes to the standard hour as a concession to
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the importance and complexity of the case.
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"Neither lawyer had a particularly easy time. Expressing concerns about
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both positions, the justices appeared less interested in constitutional
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theory than in learning about the available technology by which those
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who post material on the Internet and those who receive it on their
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computer screens can filter or mark the portions not suitable for
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children.
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Full story at:
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http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/032097decency.html
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NOTE: Free registration is required to access the NY Times site.
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:35:45 -0500 (EST)
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From: Lisa Kamm <kamml@aclu.org>
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Subject: File 4--Reno v. ACLU SupCt Transcript online
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ACLU Cyber-Liberties Update
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Wednesday, March 19, 1997
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Transcript of Reno v. ACLU Oral Arguments
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Online Today at ACLU's Freedom Network
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Demonstrating the power of the Internet, the American Civil Liberties
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Union today posted online the transcript of the oral arguments in Reno
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v. ACLU only hours after the questioning ended.
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Reno v. ACLU challenges censorship provisions of the Communications
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Decency Act aimed at protecting minors by criminalizing so-called
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"indecency" on the Internet. The government appealed the case to the
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Supreme Court after a federal three-judge panel ruled unanimously last
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June that the law unconstitutionally restricts free speech.
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The transcript is available at
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http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/trial/sctran.html
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In a news conference immediately following the oral arguments, ACLU
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lawyers said they were "encouraged" by the tenor of the questioning
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from the Justices. "This case presents the Court with its first
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opportunity to consider how traditional free speech principles should
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be applied to the Internet," said Steven Shapiro, ACLU Legal Director.
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"It is only fitting that we harness the power of cyberspace to further
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educate the public about what is at stake here."
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The ACLU news conference was also cybercast live via Real Audio. The
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audio of the event is available on the web at
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http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/trial/appeal.html
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The ACLU is also offering a special Reno v. ACLU "GIF" - a
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computer-animated image - that web publishers can post on their home
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pages for instant access to the transcripts and other information
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about the case. A change in the image will alert viewers the instant
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the Court releases its decision, which is expected by July. Details are
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at
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http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/trial/appeal.html
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ACLU Cyber-Liberties Update Editor:
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Lisa Kamm (kamml@aclu.org)
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