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Civil libertarians were outraged. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, complained that the indecency portion of the bill would transform the vast library of the Internet into a children's reading room, where only subjects suitable for kids could be discussed. "It's government censorship," said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "The First Amendment shouldn't end where the Internet begins...
HARPER'S MAGAZINE PUBLISHED the response of Washington State Representative Marc Boldt to a letter from a constituent asking him to fight to preserve funding for the local family-education center. "If your situation is subject to so much financial instability, then why did you have three children?" he wrote back, expressing the concern of taxpayers. "Why is your husband in a line of work that subjects him to 'frequent layoffs'? Why, in the face of your husband's ability to parent as a result of his frequent layoffs, are you refusing to work outside the home? Why should...
...Suffolk University Law School Professor Marc Perlin notes, the "right to equal access and the right to free speech have been clashing for many years." Although this formulation is slanted, the meaning is rather clear. Courts can either endorse a laissez-faire, hands-off conception of the "right to free speech," or they can try to actively ensure that this right is meaningful and accessible to all individuals in society...
...twice the price at which the stock had been trading. At the same time, IBM went to court to challenge a Lotus "poison pill" that would make a takeover prohibitively expensive and appealed to Lotus shareholders to oust the firm's board of directors. "Call this IBM unleashed," says Marc Schulman, president of Technology Strategies Group, a Connecticut firm that consults with computer companies. "The whole mind-set of the company has changed...
...extent that Resnick was seen to be capitalizing on a tragedy, it also tainted her as a possible witness. A new book, Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth, which has 900,000 copies in print, has prompted the prosecution to subpoena 17 hours of taped interviews made available by author Marc Eliot to determine whether Kaelin perjured himself. And one of the latest jurors to be dismissed, Francine Florio-Bunten, got in trouble with Judge Ito in part because of charges, which she has denied, that she was meeting with a literary agent. Although the California legislature attempted to end this...