James Exon Quotes
The information superhighway should not look like a red light district.
James Exon, U. S. Senator (Republican, NV), Quoted in Time, February 1995
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She was commenting on a suggestion that a Twitter User had made that any individual who felt he/she was being harassed by insulting Twitter messages, could have Twitter delete the offending content. Some of the Twitter campaigns against an individual has been gross, indecent, cruel and for the most part untrue. Hence the request. The person who perceived that he/she was being harassed was free to bring a lawsuit against the sender for defamation if the material is untrue and the person is not a Public Figure. The latter have no general right of redress in the courts.
Tinker referred to the Supreme Court Case of Tinker v. Des Moines where the court ruled that school children had Constitutional rights as well as adults. It was not possible to have a blocking system that would keep “improper” or “indecent” internet sites from library or school computers. Even if it could, the appropriate material for a 17 year old to see and a 5 year old were very different. The blocking software never worked well. Computer sophisticated students would pride themselves by showing how they could evade the blocking software, and at the same time teen age girls would have health sites blocked because they showed how to do breast self-examinations.
Statement about issue management in the Internet age.
For example, most of the documents that are classified as secret in the CIA are so classified because the censor thought the information might be damaging to the CIA’s interest, not the American citizen’s. However, there is a strange logic that is sometimes given to justify censoring material that would embarrass the agency: If the agency is embarrassed, public support and confidence in the agency will be eroded, and that in turn will cause investigations, reviews, and possible diminished budgets. This would be distracting from the agency’s mission of keeping Americans safe, so the public should be kept in the dark about embarrassing material.
John James "Jim" Exon was an American politician. He served as the 33rd Governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979, and as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1979 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Exon never lost an election, and was the only Democrat ever to hold Nebraska's Class 2 U.S. Senate seat. He was elected governor in 1970, re-elected in 1974, elected to the Senate in 1978, and re-elected to that seat in 1984 and 1990. He is the only Nebraskan other than George W. Norris, the architect of Nebraska's unicameral legislature, to win five consecutive statewide elections.
