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Date: 1998-06-16
EFF: neustart der blue ribbon campaign-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- EFF: neustart der blue ribbon campaign drei jahre nach der bisher erfolgreichsten kampagne in der netzgeschichte starten die Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU & EPIC unter dem blauen banner wieder durch. primäres ziel: abschuss der zensur/verdächtigen anträge der senatoren Coats (R) und McCain (R) (ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union, EPIC = Electronic Privacy Information Center) San Francisco, june 15: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced today that it is re-launching its Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Expression in opposition to new Congressional attempts to impose censorship controls on the Internet. The original campaign, launched in conjunction with the related "Turn the Web Black" anti-censorship protest in 1995, raised awareness of and opposition to the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which was eventually ruled unconstitutional by a unanimous Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court decision was announced exactly one year ago today. "One year ago today when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the CDA and declared that speech on the Internet is entitled to the highest Constitutional protection, we had hoped that the Congress would have given up on its foolish crusade to restrict protected speech on the Internet," said EFF President Barry Steinhardt. "Sadly, we were mistaken and the struggle isn't over yet. The Blue Ribbon campaign is just as urgent today as it was a year ago." Beginning today, the new campaign (http://www.eff.org/blueribbon/) encourages Internet users to take action to oppose online censorship, starting with two bills approved by the Senate Commerce Committee in March that are expected to be taken up by the full Senate in the next three weeks. The "CDA II" bill (S. 1482) introduced by Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN) would, in effect, prohibit the "commercial" distribution of a broad category of constitutionally protected expression that the bill terms "harmful to minors." Not only would this bill severely undermine the publishing of content on the Web for adults as well as children, but it would make it a crime to have the content of the average bookstore or library available on the Internet. "The Coats bill is a thinly veiled attempt to re-enact the CDA and to limit what even adults can say and read on the Web to only that material that is deemed suitable for children," Steinhardt said. While the bill purports to apply only to commercial distributors of sexually explicit material, Steinhardt said that "commercial" and "distributor" are so broadly defined that "they could include everything from the virtual bookstore Amazon.com, to a promotional site for a Hollywood movie, to even a non-profit Web site like EFF's, which sells t-shirts and other materials." The Internet School Filtering Act (S. 1619) sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) would require libraries and schools receiving federal funds for Internet access to install blocking software to restrict access to material that is "inappropriate for minors." This creates a new category of restriction with no legal basis that would be inclusive of material that is protected by the First Amendment even for minors. "The McCain filtering bill would rob local libraries, schools, and ultimately parents of the authority to decide for themselves what are appropriate uses of the Internet and would force them to install crude blocking software," Steinhardt said. "All too often, material about topics ranging from the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases, to women's rights, to current news stories about political sex scandals is likely to be blocked. Even religious groups such as the Society of Friends (Quaker religion) and mainstream organizations like the American Association of University Women have been blocked. Last week we learned that even conservative groups like the American Family Association have been blacklisted by these imperfect tools, which are already being installed in libraries and schools today," Steinhardt concluded. Beginning with the original Blue Ribbon Campaign against the CDA, hundreds of thousands of World Wide Web sites all over the world have chosen to display the Blue Ribbon on their pages and link to EFF Web pages containing information about censorship legislation and free speech on the Internet. The Blue Ribbon page became the fourth most-linked-to site on the Internet and has been accessed millions of times - peaking at over a million "hits" per day when President Clinton signed the ill-fated CDA into law. There are over 170,000 sites that carry the Blue Ribbon today. The new Blue Ribbon Campaign will link directly to a Congressional action site to encourage Internet users to take direct action to defend their free speech rights on the Internet. This site is currently sponsored by EFF in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and provides users the ability to send their legislators a fax or e-mail opposing the two bills. Steinhardt said that those Web sites that already display the Blue Ribbon would link directly to the new campaign. The new site contains easy to use instructions for the thousands of Web participants who would like to add the Blue Ribbon symbol to their Web site and show their solidarity against online violations of the fundamental human right of freedom of expression. -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) from Arge Daten http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-06-16 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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