Believe it or not, Thurmond was a great friend of the Internet and I will miss his enlightened approach of 'hearing from all parties with a direct interest' in decisions that affect us all (unlike some other officials I will fail to mention).
Thurmond was single handedly responsible for removing some of the darker, more disturbing passages of the Child Online Protection act, which would have given individuals the right to sue individual ISPs when someone accessed an objectionable Web site through their service. In other words, you log onto AOL, you look at some naughty, you would have the right to sue AOL. He was a voice of reason on this one. In his last year of the senate, he blocked legislation which would have forced online radio stations to pay high taxes to broadcast music radio stations broadcast for free. He did this on the basis that this legislation would put members of his constituency out of work, and decided that this legislation would need much more review before it could be seriously considered. The music labels quitely and quickly settled with Internet radio, and this was Thurmond's doing. M -----Original Message----- From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:32 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Strom Thurmond dies at 100 death of a dinosaur. you can feel for him persoanlly but you're kinda glad he isnt around Dana On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:25:18 -0500, Kevin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He didn't have anything left to live for. :( > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:54 PM > Subject: Strom Thurmond dies at 100 > > >> Not much else to say. >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
