From: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:42:36 +0800
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At 09:22 PM 2/13/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
>I do hope the religious right keeps fighting against GAK. However good
>their intentions may be on *that* issue, it is transcendently obvious to
>anyone who has been following the flux on Capitol Hill that they were
>behind the recent push to regulate the Internet.

Not obvious to me.

While the religious right clearly supported the push to regulate the
internet, the main push seemed to me to come from the existing mass
media, primarily the three big TV channels.
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