@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 Sender: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: CDA and the Fourth Amendment ~--<snip of quoted material>--~ >I realize that litigation on this issue is impossible now as no civil >plaintiff could vicariously raise the rights of a hypothetical criminal >defendant. Nevertheless, enforcement of the Exon and Hyde additions to the >law appear impossible without bruising this essential right. In short, how >can the government possibly initiate an investigation of an electronic mail >user without reading the mail? The govt doesn't need to initiate investigations: since the CDA is aimed at protecting minors, the parents or gaurdians of minors will initiate suits againts violators of the CDA. For instance, if you send email to a minor (lets say George Carlin's "Seven words you can't say on Television"); the parent of the minor might read his/her child's email to make sure that he/she doesn't receive any indecent mail; when the parent see's your message, they sue you. Also, if the minor you send the message to is offended by it, they can tell they're parents, who will then sue. Also, consider this: online services now offer the ability for parents to control what their children get access to. Why not give the children their own mailboxes with their own passwords, and offer the parents the service of keyword scanning each message of various dirty words. It would then forward these to the parents, along with any binary attachments that the child might receive (since any binary might be a pornographic picture). @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore - •••@••.••• - Wexford, Ireland CyberJournal: Cyberlib temporarily unavailable Cyber-Rights: http,ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
