Economic Coercion

[Andrew J. Mutch]

Speaking of economic coercion....



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:08:10 -0500
From: Linda Schatz <SchatzL at state.mi.us>
To: minwg-share at merit.edu
Subject: Possible Legislation re:  USF

FYI--Please note that the following information contains excerpts from
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18293,00.html> regarding
Senator McCains intention to introduce new legislation when Congress
resumes re: filtering requirements for schools applying for USF funds. 
The following information came initially from a colleague in the library
community pondering whether McCain's intention was to extend this
requirement as well  to libraries receiving USF funds...

Linda
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"Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, promised yesterday to
introduce 
legislation mandating schools that apply for federal Net access subsidies
to filter out indecent Net sites.  The up to $2.25 billion in annual 
discounts, also known as "e-rates," will be doled out to schools and 
libraries starting this year by the Federal Communications Commission, 
under direction from the Telecommunications Act of 1996."

 "Although McCain's draft legislation has yet to be introduced, the 
Commerce Committee will bhe holding hearings on how to address Net 
pornography and indecent online material on February 10."