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> 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 takes dirty pictures."
> *
> *   At this point, one of the more deaf committee members asked,
> *   "Pornography? Are we going to ban pornography?"
> *
> *   The Senate Commerce Committee then approved McCain's bill.
> *
> *   For a committee whose bailiwick is commerce, the senators seemed 
> somewhat
> *   detached from their mandate with business taking a backseat.
> *
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> Thank you once again, oh Free World Leaders, for that intelligent discours
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