The Supreme Court become CGI programmers? Eek.

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

Wow, is this age-screening a part of CGI 1.2 or something?  :)

	Brian


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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:39:30 -0800
From: Tom Wang <to...@organic.com>
Subject: full text of court arguments

This is the full text of the oral arguments for the Internet free speech
case in front of the supreme courts.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/032097decency.aclu.html

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Representative sample:

Question Mr. Waxman, does that technology require use of something
called CGI -- 

Mr. Waxman It does -- 

Question -- in order to screen it out, in effect? Is that the mechanism
by which that can be done? 

Mr. Waxman The -- Justice O'Connor, the mechanism by which a Web site
can screen for age, or a particular page, or indecent material on a
Web site could screen for age is, or at least at the time of the hearing
was by the use of something called CGI script. 

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/032097decency.aclu.html