From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 23:59:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Telecom Bill may makes abortion talke illegal on the net...
Message-ID: <199602020749.CAA10281@UNiX.asb.com>
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Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu> wrote:

>Sec. 507 of the Telecom Bill Ammends Section 1462 of title 18 of the U.S. 
>Code (Chapter 71), in ways which may make sending the following over the 
>Internet illegal:

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> o any information telling about how to obtain or make abortions and 
>   drugs, or obtaining or making anything that is for indecent or immoral 
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>   use

So the PharmWeb and any discussion of pharamacology would be illegal?
Or does that soley apply to abortion drugs?  Immoral is a pretty vague
word legally...

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>        (a) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture,
>motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of
>indecent character; or

So much for good foreign films...

>        (b) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy phonograph recording,
>electrical transcription, or other article or thing capable of producing
>sound; or

Whoopie cuishins would be illegal.

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