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Re: Virginia's Internet Law Challenged

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From: Steve Brinich
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 00:00
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klaatu wrote:

> Um, Keith, I would like to point out to you that modern society has
> continued to develop an economic squeeze to the point where it's
> almost essential that both partners work full-time outside of the
> home.

  Partly, that's a matter of choosing an upper-middle-class rather than a
simple middle-class lifestyle.  Partly, it's larely a matter of
supporting a spendthrift uncle named Sam.

> Well... ordinarily they'd be not much more disadvantaged than by
> unsupervised TV access. But there's that little thing with the
> "mouse-napping" where people are writing meta-tags so that legitimate
> search-engine results steer people to XXX pages, etc.

  Well, fraudulent labeling is already illegal, so it ought to be
possible to deal with this problem without any new laws.

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 Steve Brinich <steveb@Radix.Net>         If the government wants us
   http://www.Radix.Net/~steveb               to respect the law
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From: Steve Brinich <steveb@Radix.Net>
Subject: Re: Virginia's Internet Law Challenged
Date: 1999/10/09
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