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Detailed information on each state from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Alabama Connecticut Kansas Montana
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States: The new battlegrounds in the fight against Internet censorship Click on the states highlighted with red borders for a summary of each state's proposals. Click on the states highlighted with red borders for a summary of each state's proposals.
California Bill: Assembly Bill 1734 Result: Passed the Assembly; to Senate Judiciary Committee on 6/18. Similar to AB 295, below, this bill adds "computer disc" to the existing child pornography code. Allows an exemption for, "matter that is unsolicited and is received without knowledge or consent through a...network over which the person or entity has no control." States that employers are, "not liable...for the actions of an employee or agent unless the employee's or agent's conduct is within the scope of his or her employment," and allows as a defense that, "a person has taken reasonable,effective, and appropriate actions in good faith to restrict or prevent thetransmission of, or access to, a communication specified in this chapter." Incidentally, this bill would also create a new crime for "wholesale distribution of obscene matter," which would apply to, "Every person who knowingly possesses 10 or more units of the same obscene videotape, possesses video distribution equipment, and transfers possession of an obscene videotape to another..."
Bill: Senate Bill 1533 This bill resembles the Georgia trademark legisation, and it its last amended form would outlaw: "The unauthorized use of another's registered trademark as a domain name on any computer network or information system, such as the 'Internet' or the 'World Wide Web,' which accepts and relays electronic mail into computers situated in this state shall constitute an act of unfair competition if that user fails to release that domain name upon a notice of unauthorized use and a demand from the owner of that registered trademark that the user release the domain name."
Bill: Assembly Bill 295 Expands obscenity and child pornography statutes to prohibit transmission operators and uses the Supreme Court definition of obscenity. In fact, the bill may afford ISPs/sysops more protection than they currently have. It's not too late for someone to screw it up, though.
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