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> News For and About the Members of the
> ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION
>============================================================
> February 3, 1995 -- Number 18
><---------------------------------------------------------->
> ***** SPECIAL ALERT *****
> - Congress to consider making all system operators liable
> for messaging content. Bill would force employers to
> monitor message content. ACTION NEEDED NOW!
><---------------------------------------------------------->
>
>UNREASONABLE NETWORK POLICING PROPOSED
> Yesterday, Senator Jim Exon (D-NE) introduced S.314, the
>Communications Decency Act of 1995, in the United States
>Senate. In an effort to stamp out digital pornography, it
>makes all telecommunications providers doing business in the
>United States (from the telephone companies all the way down
>to offices that use LANs) liable for the content of anything
>sent over their networks. To avoid the possibility of tens
>of thousands of dollars in fines and up to two years in
>jail, business owners would be forced to police their
>networks and monitor in advance all messages sent over them.
>
>WITHOUT ACTION - COULD BE LAW IN MONTHS
> This bill is substantially the same as the one he put
>forward last year. He will offer it as an amendment to the
>pending telecommunications deregulation legislation in the
>U.S. Senate, which is expected to be enacted by July. Last
>year, his amendment was adopted even though many thought it
>hastily drafted and poorly thought out. Fortunately, the
>telecommunications deregulation legislation died. This
>year, a more conservative U.S. Congress may be even more
>reluctant to challenge a "morality" amendment; and its
>legislative vehicle, the telecommunications deregulation
>legislation, stands a much better chance of passage this
>year.
>
>ACTION NEEDED NOW
> Action by the business community is needed now. Please
>notify your corporate government affairs office and/or your
>legal counsel. This measure could be adopted as an
>amendment to the telecommunications bill IN A MATTER OF
>WEEKS (or potentially added to any legislation pending on
>the U.S. Senate floor), if business does not mobilize
>against it. S.314 will not stop digital pornography, but it
>could devastate the messaging business. If you are
>interested in further information or are able to participate
>in lobbying efforts over the next few weeks, contact Sarah
>Reardon at EMA (see below).
>
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>EMA ALERT is published and copyrighted (1995) by the
>Electronic Messaging Association. Permission to reproduce
>and/or redistribute with attribution is hereby given to all
>EMA members. For more information about anything in EMA
>ALERT, contact EMA via e-mail - use either X.400 (S=info;
>O=ema; A=mci; C=us) or Internet (info@xxxxxxx) address,
>facsimile (1-703-524-5558), or telephone (1-703-524-5550).
>Any EMA staff member can be addressed directly via e-mail by
>using, for X.400, G=<firstname>; S=<lastname>; O=ema; A=mci;
>C=us, and, for Internet, <firstinitial><lastname>@ema.org.
>EMA's postal address is 1655 N. Fort Myer Dr. #850,
>Arlington, VA 22209 USA.
>
Howard Rheingold hlr@xxxxxxxx
http://www.well.com/www/hlr/
Fax: 415 388 3913
what it is ----->is------>up to us
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> -> EMA ALERT <-
> News For and About the Members of the
> ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ASSOCIATION
>============================================================
> February 3, 1995 -- Number 18
><---------------------------------------------------------->
> ***** SPECIAL ALERT *****
> - Congress to consider making all system operators liable
> for messaging content. Bill would force employers to
> monitor message content. ACTION NEEDED NOW!
><---------------------------------------------------------->
>
>UNREASONABLE NETWORK POLICING PROPOSED
> Yesterday, Senator Jim Exon (D-NE) introduced S.314, the
>Communications Decency Act of 1995, in the United States
>Senate. In an effort to stamp out digital pornography, it
>makes all telecommunications providers doing business in the
>United States (from the telephone companies all the way down
>to offices that use LANs) liable for the content of anything
>sent over their networks. To avoid the possibility of tens
>of thousands of dollars in fines and up to two years in
>jail, business owners would be forced to police their
>networks and monitor in advance all messages sent over them.
>
>WITHOUT ACTION - COULD BE LAW IN MONTHS
> This bill is substantially the same as the one he put
>forward last year. He will offer it as an amendment to the
>pending telecommunications deregulation legislation in the
>U.S. Senate, which is expected to be enacted by July. Last
>year, his amendment was adopted even though many thought it
>hastily drafted and poorly thought out. Fortunately, the
>telecommunications deregulation legislation died. This
>year, a more conservative U.S. Congress may be even more
>reluctant to challenge a "morality" amendment; and its
>legislative vehicle, the telecommunications deregulation
>legislation, stands a much better chance of passage this
>year.
>
>ACTION NEEDED NOW
> Action by the business community is needed now. Please
>notify your corporate government affairs office and/or your
>legal counsel. This measure could be adopted as an
>amendment to the telecommunications bill IN A MATTER OF
>WEEKS (or potentially added to any legislation pending on
>the U.S. Senate floor), if business does not mobilize
>against it. S.314 will not stop digital pornography, but it
>could devastate the messaging business. If you are
>interested in further information or are able to participate
>in lobbying efforts over the next few weeks, contact Sarah
>Reardon at EMA (see below).
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>EMA ALERT is published and copyrighted (1995) by the
>Electronic Messaging Association. Permission to reproduce
>and/or redistribute with attribution is hereby given to all
>EMA members. For more information about anything in EMA
>ALERT, contact EMA via e-mail - use either X.400 (S=info;
>O=ema; A=mci; C=us) or Internet (info@xxxxxxx) address,
>facsimile (1-703-524-5558), or telephone (1-703-524-5550).
>Any EMA staff member can be addressed directly via e-mail by
>using, for X.400, G=<firstname>; S=<lastname>; O=ema; A=mci;
>C=us, and, for Internet, <firstinitial><lastname>@ema.org.
>EMA's postal address is 1655 N. Fort Myer Dr. #850,
>Arlington, VA 22209 USA.
>
Howard Rheingold hlr@xxxxxxxx
http://www.well.com/www/hlr/
Fax: 415 388 3913
what it is ----->is------>up to us
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