From: jseiger@cdt.org (Jonah Seiger)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:55:02 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: President Clinton's Statement on the CDA Decision
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What's more interesting is what it doesn't say. He is not at all definitive
on whether the gvt will file an appeal...

Jonah

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                             THE WHITE HOUSE

                      Office of the Press Secretary
___________________________________________________________________________

For Immediate Release                                       June 12, 1996

                         STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

The Justice Department is reviewing today's three judge panel court
decision on the Communications Decency Act.  The opinion just came down
today, and the statute says we have twenty days to make an appeal.

I remain convinced, as I was when I signed the bill, that our Constitution
allows us to help parents by enforcing this Act to prevent children from
being exposed to objectionable material transmitted though computer
networks.  I will continue to do everything I can in my Administration to
give families every available tool to protect their children from these
materials. For example, we vigorously support the development and
widespread availability of products that allow both parents and schools to
block objectionable materials from reaching computers that children use.
And we also support the industry's accelerating efforts to rate Internet
sites so that they are compatible with these blocking techniques.

                                     -30-30-30-

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