censorship looms

[Greg Prosl]

Happy Holidays to all of my friends at SCN,

Thanks to many of you, the telecom bill may not be passed before year's 
end and may not include the " indecency language" which is on to itself 
very indecent!!!!
According to today's Wall St Journal the conference committee is in a 
standoff over issues including regulation of the net. This after over 
50,000+ persons wrote, emailed or called their reps or committee members. 

For those of you interested in protecting free, private and uncensored 
personal communications, weigh in your opinions, the fight has just 
begun. The shear volume of cyber-activism is encouraging and speaks 
loudly of this mediums power and importance. Use it ! 

On a personal note I was quite sorry to miss our party. I was enroute to 
Washigton, DC setting up for a cybercast of Handel's Messiah at the J. F. 
Kennedy Center. We will be pumping out audio and vidio of the event 
beginning at 7:30 EST Saturday the 23rd. Tune in your PC's using Xing av 
software @ http://www.handels-messiah.com/. BTW any recap of the party, 
I'd love to hear from y'all.

Peace,

Greg

   greg at scn.org    Seattle Community Network:  Ensuring public space 
						in CYBERSPACE

On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Aki Namioka wrote:

> 
> Bad news on the censorship front - looks like the Telecom Bill will
> maintain the strong censorship language AND Clinton is going to sign.
> 
> There is already an anticipated first amendment legal battle 
> formulating.
> 
> - Aki
> 
>