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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Exon</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="exercise--left-as-an.html" title="exercise, left as an"/><link rel="next" href="Exploder.html" title="Exploder"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Exon</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exercise--left-as-an.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Exploder.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Exon"/><dt xmlns="" id="Exon"><b>Exon</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/eks´on/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">excl.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A generic obscenity that quickly entered wide use on the Internet
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and Usenet after the passage of the Communications Decency Act. From the
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last name of Senator James Exon (Democrat-Nebraska), primary author of the
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<a href="../C/CDA.html"><i class="glossterm">CDA</i></a>. This usage outlasted the CDA itself, which was
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quashed a little over a year later by one of the most acerbic
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pro-free-speech opinions ever uttered by the Supreme Court. The campaign
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against it was led by an alliance of hackers and civil libertarians, and
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was the first effective political mobilization of the hacker
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culture. Use of Exon's name as an expletive outlived the CDA controversy
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itself.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="exercise--left-as-an.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Exploder.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">exercise, left as an </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Exploder</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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