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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