Fwd: McCain bill on Blocking and filtering (fwd)

[Lorraine Pozzi]

Kind of scary stuff.  LP

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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:29:57 -0400
From: Jillaine Smith <jillaine at benton.org>
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Subject: Fwd: McCain bill on Blocking and filtering

Date:         Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:20:13 -0400
From:         Keith Krueger <Keith at cosn.org>
Subject:      McCain bill on Blocking and filtering expected on Senate
              floor-pls. repost

To:             CoSN Members
From:           Leslie Haris, CoSN Legislative consultant


After a week of trying, Sen. John McCain (R.Ar) has finally secured an
agreement to bring S. 1619 to the Senate floor. That is the legislation that
would require all E-Rate recipeients to use blocking and filtering software.
Early in the week, the Senator sought to get an agreement to bring the bill to
the floor under a time agreement that would have allowed for no amendments and
only one hour of debate. When Senators objected to that proposal, a new
agreement was negotiated that would allow debate not only on S.1619, but on an
alternative, expected to be proposed by Sen. Conrad Burns (R.Mo) and others.
As I understand it, the Burns alternative  requires that all E-rate recipients
have Internet Acceptable Use Policies and that those policies address not only
access to inappropriate material but behavior in chat rooms and e-mail as
well. Fifteen national school and library groups lent a letter to the full
Senate late in the week objecting to the McCain bill. A vote is expected in
about two weeks

Please call your Senators and object to S. 1619.Let them know that schools and
libraries can be trusted to make good decisions about how best to guide and
structure children's Internet access. The Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121.


Posted by Leslie Harris on Behalf of the International Society for Technology
in Education and the Consortium for School Networking.

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