J. Exon: “earlier this week, I circulated a ``Dear Colleague'' letter which explained the revisions in the communications decency…”

“earlier this week, I circulated a ``Dear Colleague'' letter which explained the revisions in the communications decency provision. In title IV of the telecommunications reform bill, as my colleagues know, title IV includes legislation that I have worked on for about a year to make the Internet and other aspects of the information superhighway safer for our families and for our children to travel. It seems an appropriate time to explain these revisions and file my amendment so that it may be printed in the Record, as I have just asked for and received consent for--primarily, for the convenience and review of my colleagues before we debate this matter further next week and eventually come to a vote. Mr. President, some basic rules of the road need to be established. As the information superhighway rolls up to the front door of every household and school and library in America, this bill will bring exciting, revolutionary, and new information technologies within the reach of every American. There has not been anything that I think is more exciting that has ever been developed than the information superhighway and what it is going to do to make more information and more education readily accessible to any who seek it. I have said on many occasions that I happen to believe the whole computer Internet system is the most important, the most revolutionary development since the printing press.…”