Chill Factor (8 Feb 1996): 30%
According to a New York Times column by Charles Levendosky:
The telecom bill refers to a curious section of Title 18 of the U.S. Code and alters it to include interactive computer
services (meaning Internet and E-mail).
That section (1462) of the U.S. Code makes it illegal to transport materials, drugs, and medicines used for abortion and
includes a prohibition against books or pamphlets about abortion. It also makes it illegal to give information about where
abortions are performed.
So the telecom bill, as passed, forbids the communication of all such information over Internet or by E-mail.
Attention fellow Pro-Lifers! S. Elf Righteous here with an Important Announcement
relevant to your eternal salvation.
My top-flight investigative staff here at The Indecency Page recently uncovered a
nefarious and heretofore unknown fact: the ******* ********** ****** ***** **** ** ****** ****
*** * ***** ** baby killers! [Censored: Indirect reference explaining how to obtain an abortion.]
The gall of them, right here under my very righteous nose!!!
It's horrendous! It's revolting!!! It's disgusting!!!!! It MUST be
STOPPED!!!!!! According to their very own literature, "******* ********** ** ******* ****** **** ********
*****************, ***** *******, **********,
************ ******** ********." ("******" ********--hrrruMMmph!)
[Censored: Indirect reference explaining how to obtain an abortion.]
This is unbelievable!!! This disgrace must END!!!!! This horrifying
BLIGHT on our fair city MUST ** ***** ***, ******* ***, and ******* **** ** ***
********** ******* ** HELL!!!!!!!!!!!! [Censored: Reference to excretory function. Please note the "Hell" has
not been censored, because as near as I can determine, it and other similar profanities have not been banned.]
I invite all my fellow pro-lifers to ****** *** ******* ********** ****** **
**** **** **** ******, ****** ****, ********. Also call the ****** ** ***** ***-**** and express
your *********** ** ***** ********* *******.[Censored: Indirect reference explaining how to obtain an abortion.] --Elf
Well, hrrrmph, ahem, cough-cough, aaaahhhhh, hrrrrrrRRRRrrrrrrmmMMMmmmmppPPPpph. Aaahh, well, I just KNOW that the Indecency Bill here was a really great and inspired idea NECESSARY to protect our GREAT AND GLORIOUS CHRISTIAN NATION from the influence of godless infidels and WORST of ALL secular HUMANISTS!!!!!!!!!!!! But it seems that something has gone awry here. How can my own infallibly spiritual and inspired writing be . . . er, uuuhhh, oh, uummmm, oh, yes! I see now!!! It's the commies, yeah, that's it, the commies, and the Trilateral Commission, yes, they've . . . and the ATF--they're in on this, and . . . and don't forget the REAL ENEMY the libral EASTERN PRESS!!!!! Yeah, that's it . . . I smell cover-up here! And conspiracy!! And . . . HEY NOREEN! LOAD ME UP THAT AK-47 AND BRING IT OVER HERE AND I MEAN *** *** **** ****** ** ** [Censored: Explicit reference to excretory organ] RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! I'm going to **** **** ****** *** [Censored: Explicit reference to sexual activity.] go out and fix this here problem PERSONALLY and I mean FIX IT UP GOOD . . . them Goddamn [NOTE: This profanity is not censored because this type of language is not regulated or restricted by the CDA. I must add, however, that this profanity is by far more offensive to me personally than any of the indecency I have been forced to censor because of the CDA. But don't expect logic from politicians . . . ] commies and libral hippy freeloaders are going to have a REAL CHRISTIAN to deal with, and I don't mean one of them fake-o weak-kneed, lilly-livered *** **** *** **** ** ** *** ***** ***** *****, [Censored: Explicit reference to deviant sexual practice.] EITHER . . . --Elf