From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:54:14 +0800
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Subject: Re: The Censorware Summit: A Preview, from The Netly News
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Of course it's not what the news media have been saying, at least vocally.
They often get suckered in by slick press releases and prepackaged pap. I
sometimes wonder if my sitting next to a reporter during an event and
telling him/her what's really going on ever changes what they write about
or how they say it. I suspect it does.

-Declan


At 15:34 -0400 7/16/97, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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>   at 11:16 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
>
>>As for Lucky's point #2 -- Yes, I've read drafts of bills that would make
>>it a Federal crime to misrate. --Declan
>
>This doesn't sound like the "voluntary" system that the "news" media has
>been advertising.
>
>Perhaps they were too busy peddling Toilet Paper & Tampons to report the
>most important part of the story: "Clinton Administration wants Mandatory
>Rating System for the Internet".
>
>The mechanics of RSACi are really secondary to the fact that the FEDS want
>to force them on us.
>
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Declan McCullagh
Time Inc.
The Netly News Network
Washington Correspondent
http://netlynews.com/