Re: Spin Control Alert (LI Newsday, 2/12/96)

At 09:22 PM 2/13/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
>I do hope the religious right keeps fighting against GAK. However good
>their intentions may be on *that* issue, it is transcendently obvious to
>anyone who has been following the flux on Capitol Hill that they were
>behind the recent push to regulate the Internet.

Not obvious to me.

While the religious right clearly supported the push to regulate the
internet, the main push seemed to me to come from the existing mass
media, primarily the three big TV channels.
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 13-Feb-96 Re: Spin Control Alert (LI
.. by jamesd@echeque.com 
> Not obvious to me.
>  
> While the religious right clearly supported the push to regulate the
> internet, the main push seemed to me to come from the existing mass
> media, primarily the three big TV channels.

The religious right did not *support* the "push to regulate the
Internet" -- they drafted, defended, and pushed through the damn CDA!

Did you *read* the message I posted, with information about how the
religious right/anti-porn groups created and then worked to push this
legislation through Congress?

Did you *read* the files in my Rimm archive, detailing how an editor at
the Georgetown Law Journal worked to get Rimm's "research" approved for
publication? Did you know that he's a leading anti-porn activist?

Did you *read* Mike Godwin's collection of articles about how the
religious right organied the anti-porn scare?

Certainly the mass media were complicit, but they served a supporting role.

-Declan