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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: [news.admin.misc, et al.] ALERT RE POSTINGS AND CORNELL ACCESS TO ALT.*.*.EROTICA HIERARCHY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.102029.23140@aston.ac.uk>
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- Carl M. Kadie (kadie@cs.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : [A repost - Carl]
- :
- : Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.config
- : From: M. Stuart Lynn <msl1@cornell.edu>
- : Subject: ALERT RE POSTINGS AND CORNELL ACCESS TO ALT.*.*.EROTICA HIERARCHY
- : Message-ID: <1992Nov18.202832.1951@mail.cornell.edu>
- : Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:28:32 GMT
- :
- : ALERT ON POSTINGS TO AND CORNELL ACTION REGARDING
- : ALT.BINARIES.PICTURES.EROTICA
- :
- : 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. Although some of these pictures may have
- : originated from outside of the United States, it is known that a number
- : of them have been re-distributed from sources within the United States.
- :
- : One of these sources may have originated at Cornell, but there appear to
- : be other sources associated with other institutions. It also appears that
- : individuals from many institutions are explicily requesting copies of
- : these files.
- :
- : 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.
-
- A point a big fuss was made about 2 years ago about kiddie porn
- on the net.
- These turned out to be pictures scanned from a japanese magazine
- featuring models dressed in school uniform type clothes.
- These models appeared to be under 18 to americans, when in fact they
- were women dressed and attempting to be children.
- :
- : M. Stuart Lynn
- : Vice President for Information Technologies
- : --
- : Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
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