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FC: Replies to Feds getting way serious about "Chat Room Dangers"
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 00:17:41 -0400
Previous Politech message: "Feds take matters firmly in hand: Hearing on 'Chat Room Dangers'" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03494.html --- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:55:33 -0700 To: declan () well com From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>Subject: Re: FC: Feds take matters firmly in hand: Hearing on "Chat Room Dangers"
WASHINGTON (May 7) - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing scheduled for Monday, May 13, 2002, at 1:00 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Central High School, 2431 North Drake Road, Kalamazoo, Michigan has been relocated to the Kalamazoo Valley Community College M-Tec Facility in Oshtemo, Michigan. This hearing is entitled "Chatting On-Line: A Dangerous Proposition for Children."
Geee ... with a hearing-title like that ... do ya think maybe it'll be a biased, prejudicial, "loaded" hearing? Huh? Huh? Do ya?! <sigh>
--jimDemagogue politicians need to make sure there are specters of terrifying devils to horrify us. Otherwise, we would too-easily be horrified by the politicians.
--- From: "Thomas Leavitt" <thomasleavitt () hotmail com> To: declan () well comSubject: Re: FC: Feds take matters firmly in hand: Hearing on "Chat Room Dangers"
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:08:15 -0700 How about this:"Unsupervised Conversations With Complete Strangers: A Dangerous Proposition for Children"
or better yet:"Tips and Techniques for Responsible Parenting: Supervising Your Child's On and Off-line Activities To Ensure Appropriate Behavior"
or even better: "The Off Button: The Ultimate Tool for Parental Control" and finally: "Responsible Parenting: Getting To Know Your Children and Their Friends" All much more appropriate topics of discussion, IMHO. Regards, Thomas Leavitt -- Thomas Leavitt -- thomasleavitt () hotmail com; ICQ #16455919 http://www.internetmanifesto.org/ http://www.sczenkarate.org/ http://www.space.org/ http://www.gnosis.org/ Wired since 1981. Internet enabled since 1990. Web enabled since 1993. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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