really. Apparently he wasn't such a dinosaur after all then. Dana
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:29:47 -0400, Haggerty, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
