From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:58:39 +0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The Big Sellout
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I spoke to Netscape earlier today. The company previously had announced it
would support PICS in a future version of Navigator. Now it's pledging to
support PICS in the *next* version.

-Declan


On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:

> At 01:07 AM 7/16/97 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >For instance, Netscape Communications is expected to announce it will
> >back a software standard that allows people, using a Web browser,
> >either to block or select certain Web sites based on their electronic
> >labels, said industry and government sources, speaking on condition of
> >anonymity.
> 
> Should such a system ever see widespread use, which I doubt, I only be a
> matter of days before somebody puts up pages featuring gratuitous violence,
> hard-core pornography, "how to kill your parents using common household
> chemicals", and pages of similar nature. At which point we will quickly
> discover just how "voluntary" this "voluntary standard" is.
> 
> Sure the CDA was struck down by the Supreme Court. Would a law prohibiting
> "mislabeling" of websites be struck down as well? I doubt it.
> 
> 
> 
> --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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