Official library or university stand on telecomm bill liability issues?

[Prentiss Riddle]

Noted in the 2/6/96 Edupage:

| COLLEGES WORRY ABOUT NEW LIABILITY FOR INTERNET CONTENT
| The recent passage of the telecommunications reform bill has some
| college administrators worried over new liability issues for
| educational institutions that might unknowingly make "indecent"
| material available to minors through their Internet access operations.
| In addition, they've expressed concern over potential First Amendment
| violations if they censor the content too heavily.  "We have programs
| on campus about date rape, unwanted pregnancy, and reproductive-health
| options, so I don't see how we'd tolerate censorship of that kind of
| information in the electronic format," says the head of
| telecommunications at Carnegie Mellon University.  
| (Chronicle of Higher Education 9 Feb 96 A23)

Does anyone know of any universities or libraries which have made
formal policy announcements or initiated legal action in response to
the telecomm bill?

(I realize that the question is premature -- I don't believe that
Clinton has signed the bill yet, although he is expected to do so
tomorrow.)

For more background on the freedom of expression issues surrounding the
bill, see:

	http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/
	http://www.clari.net/suitpage.html
	http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/index.html#exon
	http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_2.5.html
	

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