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- From: greeny@eff.org (J S Greenfield)
- Subject: Re: [news.admin.misc] Re: ALERT RE POSTINGS AND CORNELL ACCESS TO ALT.*.*.EROTICA HIERARCHY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.044211.7776@eff.org>
- Originator: greeny@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:42:11 GMT
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- dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) 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?
-
- I seem to recall from last year (when a Mac virus was released by some
- Cornell students) that a number of (other) Cornell students complained
- that Mr. Lynn had a tremendous tendency to overeact...
-
-
- >>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.
-
- Well, there have certainly been a number of photographs depicting nude girls;
- however, most of them have not provoked complaints of "child pornography."
- One gif, entitled "RUKO.GIF" has produced many such charges, however.
-
- Based upon a summary of the US child pornography standards, it is plausible
- to me that "RUKO.GIF" could be found to constitute "child pornography."
- (That particular picture included a close-up of the child's genitalia.)
-
-
- evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
-
-
- >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.
-
- There have, however, been pictures posted that certainly were of *children*
- (though may not have been "child pornography" as defined by US law).
-
- I would guess that the girl in RUKO.GIF was closer to 8 than to 18.
-
-
- --
- J. S. Greenfield greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
- (I like to put 'greeny' here, greeny@eff.org
- but my d*mn system wants a
- *real* name!) "What's the difference between an orange?"
-