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From: "Xenu's Sister" <vickie@miso.wwa.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:22:37 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Black Day, Black Web Pages
To: "Ecto...the Fuzzy Blue Mailing List" <ecto@ns2.Rutgers.EDU>
cc: Love-Hounds <love-hounds@gryphon.com>
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Loves: Kate Bush/Happy Rhodes/Jane Siberry/Tori Amos/Peter Gabriel/Sarah McLachlan/Victoria Williams
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Subject: Protest the Telecommunications Bill (fwd)
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JOIN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER INTERNET USERS IN
* 48 HOURS OF PROTEST *
AFTER PRESIDENT CLINTON SIGNS THE BILL THAT WILL CENSOR THE INTERNET
Update: -Latest News: Congress passed the net censorship language
on 2/1/96.
-What You Can Do Now: Help demonstrate the extent of the
impact of the Internet Censorship legislation. Join
Hundreds of thousands of Internet Users in an
International protest for 48 hours after Clinton
Signs the bill.
CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT
Feb 3, 1996 (expires Feb 29, 1996)
PLEASE WIDELY REDISTRIBUTE THIS DOCUMENT WITH THIS BANNER INTACT
This alert and coalition coordinated by the
Voters Telecommunications Watch (vtw@vtw.org)
________________________________________________________________________
CONTENTS
The Latest News
What You Can Do Now
Chronology of the CDA
For More Information
List Of Participating Organizations
________________________________________________________________________
THE LATEST NEWS
Last week Congress approved sweeping restrictions on online speech and
conduct, imposing fines of $250,000 and jail sentences of 2 years for
anyone who makes "indecent" material available in a public forum online.
This legislation threatens the very existence of the Internet as a viable
means of free expression, education, and political discourse.
Despite loud objections from civil liberties groups and the public,
the measure is part of a massive telecommunications bill that President
Clinton has already pledged to sign. Although you should feel free to
continue to express your objections directly to the President, there are
other ways to express our outrage for this legislation. The President
is expected to sign this bill into law during the week of Feb 5-9, 1996.
For 48 hours after Clinton signs the Telecommunications Reform bill into law,
join hundreds of thousands of Internet users everywhere to show the far
reaching impact this bill will have on all Internet users. TURN YOUR
WORLD WIDE WEB PAGES BLACK with white lettering to demonstrate that the
Internet will not accept this kind of second class treatment from the
United States Government.
________________________________________________________________________
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW
1. For 48 hours after Clinton signs the net censorship language in the
Telecomm bill into law, TURN YOUR WORLD WIDE WEB PAGES BLACK with
white lettering. To know when the bill is signed, check these
sources:
Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-disob
Email:vtw-announce@vtw.org (watch for mail on this list)
WWW:http://www.vtw.org/
Finger:vtw@panix.com
You can also just watch CNN; they'll announce the signing of the bill.
To turn your pages black with white lettering, simply add the following
tag to your World Wide Web pages:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#FFFFFF">
Put this right after your <head></head> tags, and before any </body> tags.
To explain to people who may be confused by the color change, temporarily
add the following link to your page:
<a href="http://www.vtw.org/speech/">My World Wide Web Pages are
black for 48 hours to protest second-class treatment from the
US Government for free speech. Read about it at this WWW
page.</a>
The Center for Democracy and Technology has also agreed to mirror a
similar page at URL:http://www.cdt.org/speech.html
If your pages get lots of hits from services that cache their pages like
America Online, you may wish to start turning your pages black early.
Please try and wait though until Clinton signs the bill, for maximum
effect.
Also, urge your Internet Provider and any Internet WWW pages you
frequent to turn their pages black. Send us interesting sites that
comply to vtw@vtw.org.
$ Mail vtw@vtw.org
Subject: ZTV.COM is turning their pages black!
I'm the head of the ZTV Website and I've decided to turn our
pages black. Thought you'd like to know.
^D
Mail sent!
2. Don't forget to send Clinton a message, contact him at:
Email:president@whitehouse.gov
Telephone:202-456-1111
Fax:202-456-2461
Sample communique:
<ring ring>
You're about to sign a bill into law that imposes a terrible
set of speech restrictions on the Internet that belong in the
broadcast medium, not the interactive one.
I'm turning my World Wide Web pages BLACK for 48 hours after you
sign the bill as a symbol of protest to show how many people will
be affected by this bill.
It is unlikely that he will veto the bill.
3. Make a commitment become involved! There will be several court cases
coming up to challenge the Internet censorship legislation, as well as
an election that will put every single member of the House, and 1/3rd
of the Senate (most of whom voted for this legislation) onto the ballot.
Don't let them get away with this. Make this a campaign issue, and
keep an eye out for legal defense funds for those challenging these
laws in court.
--- end forwarded text
Vickie
http://miso.wwa.com/~vickie/