Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!swlabs!jack From: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Who defines Net.Porn ? Keywords: porn, underage, lawsuit Message-ID: <2647@swlabs.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 15:38:13 GMT References: <1278@cbnews.ATT.COM> <4805@whuts.UUCP> <3498@c3pe.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) Distribution: na Organization: Software Labs, Ltd. Easton, CT USA Lines: 12 In article <3498@c3pe.UUCP> aliza@c3pe.UUCP (Aliza R. Panitz (AlmostLady)) writes: >Recent Virginia laws make it a serious offense for a store to sell materials >that are LATER found to be "obscene". A simple extension of that law >would be: "Oops, your public access Unix machine has an article, posted >two weeks ago, that we found to be obscene today. We'll confiscate >the machine." Especially since uunet is in Virginia. If that site was forced to close at this point, connectivity would be adversely effected, to say the least. -- Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT 06612 uunet!swlabs!jack (UUCP) jack%swlabs.uucp@uunet.uu.net (INTERNET)