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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.misc] Re: ALERT RE POSTINGS AND CORNELL ACCESS TO ALT.*.*.EROTICA HIERARCHY
- Message-ID: <Bxy3Gx.CJw@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.admin.misc
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:07:44 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
- Subject: Re: ALERT RE POSTINGS AND CORNELL ACCESS TO ALT.*.*.EROTICA HIERARCHY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.211845.8278@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:18:45 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov18.202832.1951@mail.cornell.edu> M. Stuart Lynn <msl1@cornell.edu> writes:
- >ALERT ON POSTINGS TO AND CORNELL ACTION REGARDING
- >ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.EROTICA
- >
- First of all, is this a joke? A forgery? Or do you just like sounding
- like a paranoid fool in public?
-
- >It has come to my attention that certain pictures encoded as GIF files
- >are circulating on the NetNews newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
- >(a.b.p.e) whose transmission may constitute violations of the United
- >States Code regarding sexual exploitation of minors, in particular
- >Section 2252. These pictures depict unclothed young children displayed in
- >a manner that could be construed as constituting sexually explicit
- >conduct as defined in the Code.
-
- What articles specifically are you refering to? I have asked over and
- over and over for real examples, and none have been forthcoming. I personally
- have seen no images that could be construed as you describe. I don't claim
- to have seen everything posted to that group.
-
- >Effective immediately, Cornell's official newstand will no longer provide
- >access to the a.b.p.e, hierarchy at least until we can ascertain that
- >there has been no violation of the law.
- >
- Do you apply this standard to your bookstore, or your library? Wow,
- academic freedom in action. Zow!
-
- DanZ
-
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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