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Originally posted by Colin
"The law, signed by President Clinton"
No politician is the friend of porn. What do you think? Clinton signed this AND CDA. Why?
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
6/26/96
'Today, the Supreme Court ruled that portions of the Communications Decency Act addressing indecency are not constitutional. We will study its opinion closely.
The administration remains firmly committed to the provisions -- both in the CDA and elsewhere in the criminal code -- that prohibit the transmission of obscenity over the Internet and via other media.'
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Janet Reno never tried to enforce this bullshit law.
Obscenity prosecutions were down tremendously under the Clinton administration. That's called respect for free speech and the constitution. Not like the right wing anti-constitution crowd who would put you in jail for showing nudity. Read this:
Flores joined former Attorney General Ed Meese and a dozen leaders of conservative groups to release figures showing federal obscenity prosecutions are down more than 70 percent over the past five years.
The Justice Department rejected the charges and released its own figures showing a 162 percent increase in prosecutions involving obscenity aimed at children.
The political and religious leaders gathered in Washington blasted the Clinton-Reno record on pursuing makers and distributors of pornography. They said the Justice Department's own statistics compiled by a Syracuse University professor represent the first such effort to assemble the data.
A Justice Department spokesman acknowledged that prosecutions of adult obscenity cases are down, but said that reflected a decision to shift resources to fight child exploitation cases involving pornography.
The Justice Department said prosecutions have shifted away from charging consenting adults engaged in sending pornographic materials because the threat to children is considered a much greater danger.
Clinton left adult pornographers alone and went after child porn instead. That's the way it should be, don't you think?
Apparently conservatives think that porn and child porn are equally evil. Do you agree with the conservatives or with Bill Clinton?
http://www6.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/10/27/email/smut/