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CIPA Trial Comes to a Close
Cossie writes "As the latest major case on library/internet censorship comes to a close, CNET News has an article up summarizing the court battle over the CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act). It's a decent summary of the case, including several quotes by judges commenting on the case." See our story from when the suit was filed describing the issues at stake.
Senators going to try and put another protection act next week? What a victory.
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I honestly think that /. should put michael on the criticising block, and let the community have at him. Maybe an interview with him.
That way we can ask him about censorware.
Ask him about the truth behind the rumors of him being a "moderating gustapo".
And ask him about his insulting to various slashdot readers.
Quickest way to kill rumors/conspiracy theories?
Get it out in the open.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
We all know that CIPA means 'cunt' in Polish, okay?
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
Haha! This comment just got bitchslapped, me thinks. Went from +4 to 0 within about 1 minute, all of them 'Troll' mods. Not to mention the fact that it keeps getting modded up. I doubt a community as one sided as slashdot is has a problem deciding whether Seth is spouting FUD or not... especially considering even the "MS Windows is great" trolls hate michael when they're writing non-trolling posts. Let's see if this one goes down in history as the +1000 mods post... ;)
But as it stands, it is well within the rights of a community to define obscenity standards, and statutes associated with that definition. I would think that includes the enforcement of such standards.
Now the constitutionality of that can certainly be questioned, but I don't think that quite relates to this topic.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
As it turned out, there was no group support for doing such a site [anti-censorware website] - no one wanted to take such a radical free-speech position except me [Michael Sims]. But getting a domain name and a dedicated site was still a good idea. So in Feb. 1998, I registered censorware.org for the exorbitant fee of $100 and set up a hosting account, for (I think) $50/month. Then it was on to develop the site. (Bold emphasis added)
It is readily apparent that someone other than Seth F has a vendetta here. Such harsh language michael. I don't recall reading such inflammatory comments on Seth's account of said story. Hmmmm...
And as FortKnox will attest, this isn't just your reaction to one man's 'obsession', as we've seen you do it here on this site too, bashing those of us who use and frequent Slashdot the most - i.e., we have, at least in the past, found it a great source of info, enjoyment, etc.