IP: U.S. bill tries to end anonymous surfing, email from libraries

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> \Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:10:10 -0400
> To: politech () politechbot com
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> The bill requires schools and libraries receiving federal funds to prevent 
> "use of such computers to access an online privacy service that enables a 
> user (I) to send electronic mail anonymously; or`(II) to access the World 
> Wide Web anonymously."
>
> Maybe I'll be flamed for saying this, but, heck, this is what you get when 
> special interest groups lobby the Feds for cash. Congress has a long and 
> miserable history of slapping restrictions on money it doles out, from 
> highway dollars and the 55 mph limit to student aid and dubious Title IX 
> restrictions (http://www.reason.com/0104/fe.ml.title.html). Sure, 
> libraries can sue to overturn the smut-blocking restrictions, but they may 
> not prevail, and even if they win that fight, they won't win 'em all. 
> Whatever happened to having local library boards and communities decide on 
> these rules?
>
> -Declan
>
> *********
>
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:32:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jon Camfield <griffjon () yahoo com>
> Subject: No anonymous access from libraries?
> To: declan () well com
>
> I'm surprised this hasn't hit the major alt-news
> outlets yet.  I first saw it on newsbytes
> (http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165792.html)
>
> "These radical organizations are made up of loosely
> knit groups from across the country that endorse
> militant action in the name of a particular cause.
> They use privacy sites on the Internet to anonymously
> contact one another and recruit our children. Then,
> using the environment or other worthwhile causes, they
> manipulate juveniles into committing crimes to further
> their own cause."
> --Rep. Grucci (R-NY)
>
> The full text of the H.R. 1846 bill:
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01846:
>
> Bummer for Hotmail access, eh?
>
>
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