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The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was declared unconstitutional by
the U.S. Supreme Court a while back - and was I relieved!
(No, I'm not in favor of smut on the Internet, but
I am interested in preventing censorship of discussions of
such explicit adult topics as AIDS preventative measures, contraception,
and so forth.) If that particular law had stayed in effect, any U.S.
citizen could conceivably have been sent to jail for sending messages on
the Net that would have been Constitutionally protected in any other
context. To those U.S. Gov't officials whom it may concern:
Please don't "dumb down" the Net for us adults, thank you -
you don't censor the contents of public libraries and bookstores due to a
legal technicality known as the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
and the Internet deserves the same consideration. (There are already
obscenity laws on the books to protect children; we just need to enforce
those laws rather than censor adult speech.)
For more details on this decision and its aftermath, see the
Voters Telecommunications Watch Net
Censorship Focus page.
Interestingly, and with a touch of irony, the recently-released
Starr Report would
probably itself have run afoul of the CDA if it had become law, making it
illegal to put it on the Internet without barring access to minors!
Welcome to my home page!
Here are some of my favorite Web resources:
- The
Starting Points for Internet Exploration document (courtesy of the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at
the University of Illinois) is an excellent way to begin surfing the
Internet.
- The AT&T Message Center.
Allows AT&T WorldNet users Web-based access to their e-mail from
any machine that has access to the WWW. (Requires pre-registration.)
- AltaVista™ Finance.
Perfect place to keep track of the Dow Jones,
S&P 500, and NASDAQ so you can stay on top of that pesky stock market.
Also see Yahoo! Finance and
CNNfn.
- My Yahoo! for tracking my favorite
stocks, local news, movie times at the local theatres, and so forth.
(That's my My Yahoo! - you'll have to set up your own ;-) .)
- The AltaVista™ Search
Page. An excellent tool for searching for Usenet articles by keyword.
Also see the Deja News™
and REFERENCE.COM Search
pages for similar capabilities.
- Interested in Internet performance statistics (useful when you suspect
a router crashed somewhere)? In addition to the
Internet Traffic Report
at the top of my page, there's also the
MIDS Internet Weather Report
(IWR).
- Microsoft Corporation, for
MS Windows and other Microsoft product support and some nice stuff you
can download.
- For the latest weather reports and information:
- The
Web Interface to Whois. General Internet directory service.
- A couple of good Internet dictionaries:
- The Electronic Frontier
Foundation contains some useful archives and is another source of
Congressional and other political information.
- The World
Wide Web OpenFAQs will answer most general questions about the Web.
Year 2000 (Y2K)
Note:This information has been moved to my
Y2K archive page, which is what my former
home page looked like a few days after the Y2K rollover. Since, to my
great relief, almost nothing adverse actually happened, I decided it was
time to start getting a life. It should be of some future historical
interest to see the exact Y2K items everyone (including myself ;-) ) got
worked up about and which ones could have turned into actual problems
if not fixed in advance.
Evan's Home Page / Evan Robatino / erobatino@worldnet.spam.net
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(Only usable in the USA and Canada due to U.S. Gov't export restrictions.)
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