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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (72654)	2/1/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 186894

Yours is an excellent post Jim. I like to kid the Intel insiders about Intel but what it comes down to is we ( in the broad sense) are the people who most understand the technology that people in the information age are going to have to use and live with. If we, especially the engineers at Intel, do not act intelligently to protect our civil liberties in the design of products, whom do we expect will do that? We have a responsibility to develop technology consistent with our American values and not totalitarian ones. There isn't a person here who would be happy to know that some dissident in Iraq, or China, or Syria, or any number of the other totalitarian countries was tracked down because of his Intel computer ID. And that isn't the half of it. It isn't Paul Engel reading my letters to the editor that I worry about. We have a responsibility. Paul's problem is that he will not admit that we have that responsibility.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (72654)	2/1/1999 11:40:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Jimbo - Re: " If PR was left up to you all you'd say is S$rew you...this ID thing is good for you. Take it or else. S$rew you...this ID thing is good for you. Take it or else. Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (72654)	2/2/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jimbo - Our Great ACLU helps us all out again ! God, these guys are GOOD ! They protect our privacy and PORNOGRAPHY ! Paul {====================================} Posted at 3:23 p.m. PST Monday, February 1, 1999 Judge imposes injunction on Internet porn law Reuters News Service PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on Monday blocked the U.S. government's latest attempt to protect children from sexually explicit material available on commercial sites of the Internet's World Wide Web. U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed imposed a preliminary injunction against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), stopping the law from coming into force after midnight on Monday, when a temporary restraining order that had prevented its enforcement since November, was due to expire. The ruling, which followed nearly a week of hearings that ended last Wednesday, marked a victory for 17 Internet companies led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which have filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law overturned. A judge's clerk said the injunction would remain in place until the ACLU case can reach trial. COPA, which President Clinton signed into law last October, makes it a crime for commercial website operators knowingly to provide minors with access to harmful material. It requires websites to erect electronic proof-of-age barriers, including credit-card registration systems. Violators would face up to six months in prison and up to $50,000 in fines for each violation. The Justice Department, which is defending COPA, sas the new law is aimed at online pornographers who post free sexual images and text on their websites to entice adult customers. But critics say the law could be used by social conservatives to attack commercial websites that deal with a host of issues ranging from gay rights and sex education to modern art.