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• Black Thursday n. February 8th, 1996 - the day of the signing into law of the CDA, so called by analogy with the catastrophic "Black Friday" in 1929 that began the Great Depression.
• Exon /eks'on/ excl. A generic obscenity that quickly entered wide use on the Internet and Usenet after Black Thursday.
  From the last name o (Democrat-Nebraska), primary author of the CDA....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation.
  The government may not, through the [Communications Decency Act], interrupt that conversation....
• The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document.
  The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet....
• We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill.
• In a decision sure to cause major controversy for several minutes, the US Supreme Court struck down the First Law of Nature, judging it to be unlawfully discriminatory.
  Though never actually written down, the First Law of Nature is generally accepted by the American Bar Association to be, "If an individual or collection of individuals puts into practice or causes to be put into practice an action which, measured against the judgement of a reasonable person, is unwise or lacking in basic common sense, then the aforementioned individual or collection of individuals shall suffer all consequences resulting from that action, up to and including loss of life....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• Oops," Says MPAA President Recently, the United States filed a legal brief in support of the MPAA's argument that linking to the DeCSS source code is not protected by the First Amendment.
  At the time, the MPAA was ecstatic. But not any longer....