Re: Congress and the Internet

["Tom, Zarrilli" <yeshiva@AMERICA.NET>]

Date:          Thu, 14 Dec 1995 11:58:53 -500
Reply-to:      yeshiva@AMERICA.NET
From:          "Tom, Zarrilli" <yeshiva@AMERICA.NET>
Subject:       Re: Congress and the Internet
X-To:          karen denise williams <krndnswm@WAM.UMD.EDU>,
               karen denise williams <krndnswm@WAM.UMD.EDU>
To:            Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>

Date:          Wed, 13 Dec 1995 21:55:08 -0500
Reply-to:      karen denise williams <krndnswm@WAM.UMD.EDU>
From:          karen denise williams <krndnswm@WAM.UMD.EDU>
Subject:       Re: Congress and the Internet
X-To:          Angus Saunders <saunders@NORTHNET.ORG>
To:            Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>

Mea culpa to Augus Sanders.  I replies and sent the full reply to the
listserv in a way that it was hard to tell where his comments ended
and mine began.  Then I sent it out in error to the entire listserv.
I had a roomful of students and was not paying attention please
forgive me.
The following are the comments that I made on the prior  on the prior
tranmission.

Tom Zarrilli



I find that there is a misunderstanding  of the internet as media.
You mentioned the telephone which I find to be closest analogy to the
internet.  Any child can call the worst possible businesses and
services from a telphone. Yes you can cut out 976 services but I have
seen preteens getting a thrill calling the recording at an adult
theatre.  There is no law to my understanding that says you can not
leave what ever message you want on your phone machine. A  Home page
are just a visual form of a recorded telephone announcement except
that there is no restiction of location and no additional cost to
access remote locations.  If the goverment started coming into
peoples homes and editing tapes or jailing people for what was on their
machices of voice mail there would be an uproar.
  The bottom line is that to see porn on the net you have to go to
that site.
  If some one Emails an attachment that contains nudity or something
worse all you have to do is delete it.  The same thing yo would do
with simular snail mail.  From the way people are
reacting you think Larry Flynt was installing lewd screen savers on
PC's in grade schools.

Tom Zarrilli



Unfortunately, I know only too well of the reality of the effects of
pornography.  The repercussions are real.


Karen Williams
Krndnswm@wam.umd.edu