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a new communications policy that leaves most regulation
*   of the Internet to industry and people themselves, due to an expected
*   repudiation of the Communications Decency Act by the Supreme Court.
*  
*   Reno's people, [beating the Drum of War] told the Supreme Court "the
*   Internet was a revolutionary threat to children rendering irrelevant all
*   prior efforts" to protect them from pornography.
*  
*   "We all knew at the time it was passed that the Communications Decency Act
*   WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL," said an anonymous senior government official [yea
*   anonymity!].
*  
*   "This was purely politics."
*  
*   "How could you be against a bill limiting
*   the display of pornography to children?"

Thank you once again, Free World Leaders,
for that intelligent political discourse.

On 6/26/97, CDA was ruled unconstitutional 7-2 by the Supreme Court.

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Predatory behavior.

*   The New York Times, April 19, 1992
*   
*    The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, overturned the conviction of a
*    Nebraska farmer on charges of receiving child pornography. The only
*    pornography the government found was the one item it sent him, "Boys
*    Who Love Boys".
*   
*    It took the government over two years of solicitation to get him to
*    order it; he says he didn't know it was illegal.
*   
*    Among other things, the government said he should order if he 'beli