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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: <1992Nov21.164654.2724@eff.org>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:46:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.165220.2446@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
-
- >>
- >>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.)
- >
- > Perhaps, but only by a gross misinterpretation of the law. RUKO.GIF can
- >only be pornographic if _all_ nudity is pornographic. The MA law that
- >stated this was overturned.
-
- I make no claims to be an expert on child pornography--but I'm certainly
- not satisfied by your claim. I made my comment on the basis of a summary
- of a federal statute that specifically identified "lewd" and "lascivious"
- photographs of genitalia. RUKO.GIF included both a full-length nude
- photo and a close of the child's genitals.
-
- Given the very subjective nature of the terms "lewd" and "lascivious," I
- hardly think it is obvious that this photographic could "only be pornographic
- if all nudity is pornographic."
-
-
- > The picture is very obviously one of those art-photo's that I particularly
- >hate.
-
- Obvious to you, I guess...
-
-
- >But there is no erotic content, and the posting drew complaints that
- >it shouldn't have been posted to a group with 'erotica' in the name.
-
- I guess "erotic content" is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps you mean
- that it didn't turn *you* on. I don't judge "erotic content" solely by
- what turns *me* on.
-
- I had the impression that RUKO.GIF was intended to be "erotic" in nature.
- I certainly did not have the impression that it was intended to be "art."
-
- That doesn't say that I'm right. But it does say that your interpretation
- is not "obvious" to everybody.
-
- And incidentally, the vast majority of the complaints that I saw regarding
- RUKO.GIF were from people who thought it *was* erotic in nature.
-
-
- --
- 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?"
-