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	Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:06:14 -0700		Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:06:14 -0700
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-	Here we go. The FCC is about to release a report to Congress	+	Here we go. The FCC is about to release a report to Congress suggesting that lawmakers enact legislation controlling "violent content" -- not only on broadcast television but apparently on "basic cable" channels as well.
-	suggesting that lawmakers enact legislation controlling "violent	+
-	content" -- not only on broadcast television but apparently on	+
-	"basic cable" channels as well.	+


-	See: http://tinyurl.com/267ea5 (Washington Post article)	+	See: [http://tinyurl.com/267ea5] (Washington Post article)


-	The legal battles that would certainly result will be breathtaking,	+	The legal battles that would certainly result will be breathtaking, and it seems rather likely that calls to extend such regulations to the Internet will follow. If you think that defining obscenity is tough, just wait until we see people of all stripes arguing about the relative violence of a stick of TNT blowing Daffy Duck's bill around his head.
-	and it seems rather likely that calls to extend such regulations to	+
-	the Internet will follow. If you think that defining obscenity is	+
-	tough, just wait until we see people of all stripes arguing about	+
-	the relative violence of a stick of TNT blowing Daffy Duck's bill	+
-	around his head.	+


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	Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800		Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
	http://www.pfir.org/lauren		http://www.pfir.org/lauren
-	Co-Founder, PFIR	+	Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
-	- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org	+	Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net
-	Co-Founder, IOIC	+	Founder, CIFIP - California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org
-	- International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net	+
-	Founder, CIFIP	+
-	- California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org	+
	Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com		Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
	Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy		Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy

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