ridecamp@endurance.net: [endurance] ALERT:INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995 (fwd)
[endurance] ALERT:INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995 (fwd)
Dawn Engle (dengle@vt.edu)
Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:28:06 -0500
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>> CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE NET CENSORSHIP LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS
>>
>> On Tuesday December 12, 1995, Join With Hundreds of Thousands
>> Of Your Fellow Internet Users In
>>
>> A NATIONAL INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST
>>
>> PLEASE WIDELY REDISTRIBUTE THIS DOCUMENT WITH THIS BANNER INTACT
>> REDISTRIBUTE ONLY UNTIL December 20, 1995
>>________________________________________________________________________
>>CONTENTS
>> Internet Day of Protest: Tuesday December 12, 1995
>> What You Must Do On Tuesday December 12, 1995
>> List of Participating Organizations
>> Where Can I Learn More?
>>
>>________________________________________________________________________
>>INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST: TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995
>>
>>Outrageous proposals to censor the Internet demand that the Internet
>>Community take swift and immediate action. We must stand up and let
>>Congress know that we will not tolerate their attempts to destroy this
>>medium! Please join hundreds of thousands of your fellow citizens in a
>>National Day of Protest on Tuesday December 12, 1995.
>>
>>As you know, on Wednesday December 6, 1995, the House Conference
>>Committee on Telecommunications Reform voted to impose far reaching and
>>unconstitutional "indecency" restrictions on the Internet and other
>>interactive media, including large commercial online services (such as
>>America Online, Compuserve, and Prodigy) and smaller Internet Service
>>Providers such as Panix, the Well, Echo, and Mindvox.
>>
>>These restrictions threaten the very existence of the Internet and
>>interactive media as a viable medium for free expression, education,
>>commerce. If enacted, the Internet as we know it will never be the
>>same.
>>
>>Libraries will not be able to put any books online that might
>>offend a child somewhere. No "Catcher in the Rye" or "Ulysses" on the net.
>>Internet Service Providers could face criminal penalties for allowing
>>children to subscribe to their Internet Services, forcing many small
>>companies to simply refuse to sell their services to anyone under 18. Worst
>>of all, everything you say and publish on the net will have to be "dumbed
>>down" to that which is acceptable to a child.
>>
>>As Internet users, we simply must not allow this assault against the
>>Internet and our most basic freedoms to go unchallenged.
>>
>>On Tuesday December 12, the organizations below are urging you to
>>join us in a NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST. The goal is to flood key members of
>>the House and Senate with phone calls, faxes and email with the message
>>that the Internet community WILL NOT TOLERATE Congressional attempts to
>>destroy the Internet, limit our freedoms and trample on our rights.
>>
>>Below are the phone, fax, and email address of several key members of
>>Congress on this issue and instructions on what you can do to join the
>>National Day of Protest to save the Net.
>>
>>______________________________________________________________________
>>WHAT YOU MUST DO ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995
>>
>>1. Throughout the day Tuesday December 12, please contact as many
>> members of Congress on the list below as you can. If you are only
>> able to make one call, contact House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Finally,
>> if the Senator or Representative from your state is on the list
>> below, be sure to contact him or her also.
>>
>>2. Urge each Member of Congress to "stop the madness". Tell them that
>> they are about to pass legislation that will destroy the Internet as
>> an educational and commercial medium. If you are at a loss for
>> words, try the following sample communique:
>>
>> Sample phone call:
>>
>> Both the House and Senate bills designed to protect children
>> from objectionable material on the Internet will actually
>> destroy the Internet as an medium for education, commerce, and
>> political discourse. There are other, less restrictive ways to
>> address this issue.
>>
>> I urge you to oppose both measures being proposed in the
>> conference committee. This is an important election issue to
>> me.
>>
>> Sample letter (fax or email):
>>
>> The Senate conferees are considering ways to protect children
>> from inappropriate material on the Internet. A vote for either
>> the House or Senate proposals will result in the destruction of
>> the Internet as a viable medium for free expression, education,
>> commerce. Libraries will not be able to put their entire book
>> collections online. Everyday people like me will risk massive
>> fines and prison sentences for public discussions someone s
>> somewhere might consider "indecent".
>>
>> There are other, less restrictive ways to protect children from
>> objectionable material online. This is an important election
>> issue to me.
>>
>>3. If you're in San Francisco, or near enough to get there, go to
>> the Rally Against Censorship from Ground Zero of the Digital Revolution:
>>
>> WHEN: Monday, December 11, 1995 12:00 - 1:00 PM
>> WHERE: South Park (between 2nd and 3rd, Bryant and Brannon) San Francisco.
>> SPEAKERS: To be announced
>> BRING: Attention-grabbing posters, signs, and banners that demonstrate
>> your committment to free speech and expression, and your feelings
>> about Congress.
>> FOR UPDATED INFORMATION (including rain info):
>> http://www.hotwired.com/staff/digaman/
>>
>>
>>### THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT ###
>>
>>4. Mail a note to protest@vtw.org to let us know you did your part.
>> Although you will not receive a reply due to the number of
>> anticipated responses, we'll be counting up the number of people that
>> participated in the day of protest.
>>
>>
>> P ST Name and Address Phone Fax
>> = == ======================== ============== ==============
>> R AK Stevens, Ted 1-202-224-3004 1-202-224-1044
>> R AZ McCain, John 1-202-224-2235 1-602-952-8702
>> senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov
>> D HI Inouye, Daniel K. 1-202-224-3934 1-202-224-6747
>> R KS Dole, Robert 1-202-224-6521 1-202-228-1245
>> D KY Ford, Wendell H. 1-202-224-4343 1-202-224-0046
>> wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov
>> R MS Lott, Trent 1-202-224-6253 1-202-224-2262
>> R MT Burns, Conrad R. 1-202-224-2644 1-202-224-8594
>> conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov
>> D NE Exon, J. J. 1-202-224-4224 1-202-224-5213
>> D SC Hollings, Ernest F. 1-202-224-6121 1-202-224-4293
>> senator@hollings.senate.gov
>> R SD Pressler, Larry 1-202-224-5842 1-202-224-1259
>> larry_pressler@pressler.senate.gov
>> R WA Gorton, Slade 1-202-224-3441 1-202-224-9393
>> senator_gorton@gorton.senate.gov
>> D WV Rockefeller, John D. 1-202-224-6472 n.a.
>> senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
>>
>> Dist ST Name, Address, and Party Phone Fax
>> ==== == ======================== ============== ==============
>> 6 GA Gingrich, Newt (R) 1-202-225-4501 1-202-225-4656
>> 2428 RHOB georgia6@hr.house.gov
>> 14 MI Conyers Jr., John (D) 1-202-225-5126 1-202-225-0072
>> 2426 RHOB jconyers@hr.house.gov
>> 1 CO Schroeder, Patricia (D) 1-202-225-4431 1-202-225-5842
>> 2307 RHOB
>> 18 TX Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D) 1-202-225-3816 1-202-225-3317
>> 1520 LHOB
>> 6 TN Gordon, Bart (D) 1-202-225-4231 1-202-225-6887
>> 2201 RHOB
>>
>>
>>4. Forward this alert to all of your wired friends.
>>
>>________________________________________________________________________
>>WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE?
>>
>>At this moment, there are several organizations with WWW sites that now
>>have, or will have, information about the net censorship legislation and
>>the National Day Of Protest:
>>
>>American Civil Liberties Union (ftp://ftp.aclu.org/aclu/)
>>Center for Democracy and Technology (http://www.cdt.org/)
>>Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/)
>>Electronic Privacy Information Center (http://www.epic.org/)
>>Wired Magazine (http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/)
>>Voters Telecommunications Watch (http://www.vtw.org/)
>>
>>________________________________________________________________________
>>LIST OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
>>
>>In order to use the net more effectively, several organizations have
>>joined forces on a single Congressional net campaign to stop the
>>Communications Decency Act.
>>
>>
>>American Civil Liberties Union * American Communication Association *
>>American Council for the Arts * Arts & Technology Society * Association
>>of Alternative Newsweeklies * biancaTroll productions * Boston
>>Coalition for Freedom of Expression * Californians Against Censorship
>>Together * Center For Democracy And Technology * Centre for Democratic
>>Communications * Center for Public Representation * Citizen's Voice -
>>New Zealand * Cloud 9 Internet *Computer Communicators Association *
>>Computel Network Services * Computer Professionals for Social
>>Responsibility * Cross Connection * Cyber-Rights Campaign * CyberQueer
>>Lounge * Dorsai Embassy * Dutch Digital Citizens' Movement * ECHO
>>Communications Group, Inc. * Electronic Frontier Canada * Electronic
>>Frontier Foundation * Electronic Frontier Foundation - Austin *
>>Electronic Frontiers Australia * Electronic Frontiers Houston *
>>Electronic Frontiers New Hampshire * Electronic Privacy Information
>>Center * Feminists For Free Expression * First Amendment Teach-In *
>>Florida Coalition Against Censorship * FranceCom, Inc. Web Advertising
>>Services * Friendly Anti-Censorship Taskforce for Students * Hands
>>Off! The Net * Inland Book Company * Inner Circle Technologies, Inc. *
>>Inst. for Global Communications * Internet On-Ramp, Inc. * Internet
>>Users Consortium * Joint Artists' and Music Promotions Political Action
>>Committee * The Libertarian Party * Marijuana Policy Project *
>>Metropolitan Data Networks Ltd. * MindVox * MN Grassroots Party *
>>National Bicycle Greenway * National Campaign for Freedom of Expression
>>* National Coalition Against Censorship * National Gay and Lesbian Task
>>Force * National Public Telecomputing Network * National Writers Union
>>* Oregon Coast RISC * Panix Public Access Internet * People for the
>>American Way * Republican Liberty Caucus * Rock Out Censorship *
>>Society for Electronic Access * The Thing International BBS Network *
>>The WELL * Voters Telecommunications Watch
>>
>>(Note: All 'Electronic Frontier' organizations are independent entities,
>> not EFF chapters or divisions.)
>>
>>________________________________________________________________________
>> End Alert
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