🚀 go-pugleaf

it was not necessary for a child pornography conviction. That is
how she interprets the language of the bill.

Wow.

And I thought Ed Meese was a bad Attorney General. Meese had written
to companies like the owners of 7-11 and told them selling Playboy and
Penthouse could get them Federal obscenity charges. That was his attempt
to get around the First Amendment.

10/3/96 NYT: Because of computers, a bill was passed that changes the
definition of child pornography to include generated images that do
not involve actual children.

Thought crime. Law enforcement child pornography hysteria.

Sturges incident: attacked by the FBI Thought Police Squad. Massive corrupt
use of governmental law enforcement authority to enforce mere political
correctness. Due to its size: by definition not an aberration.


It cost one million dollars of our tax money.


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On June 19, 1997, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain introduced
his own bill (Senator Kerrey co-sponsor) which parrots the Clinton
administration's position and forced it to replace the Pro-Code bill.

He banged the Drum of War against Child Pornography.

*   http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly, By Declan McCullagh
*   
*   In the end, it was child pornography that derailed encryption legislation
*   in the U.S. Senate and dealt a bitter defeat to crypto supporters.
*   
*   Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), committee chair and chief sponsor of the
*   measure, led the attack, saying Congress must "stop child pornography
*   on the Internet."
*   
*   He warned that "allowing encryption to be exported would permit child
*   pornographers to use it."
*   
*   "If it's being used for child pornography? Are we going to say
*   that's just fine? That's it's just business? I don't think so."
*   
*   Sen. John Ashcroft (R-MO) tried to disagree. "It's like photography. We're
*   not going to [ban] photography if someone