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)
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Organization: Software Labs, Ltd. Easton, CT USA
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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
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