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• CDA /C-D-A/ The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996, passed on Black Thursday as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill.
  The CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person....
• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
  The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet....
• A small difference of opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court in 'Texas v.
  -- Justice William J. Brennan, writing for the majority....
• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point.
  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech....
• Internet address n. 1. [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form foo@bar.
  baz, where foo is a user name, bar is a sitename, and baz is a `domain' name, possibly including periods itself....
• Speech and expressive action that is supported by a majority of the population does not need protection.
  .. the First Amendment protects the unpopular. -- Robert J. Wagma...
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselve
  consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks....
• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustee
  and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people....