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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin] Re: "Computers graphic when it comes to porn"
- Message-ID: <9208121459.AA18275@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 04:59:03 GMT
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- Newsgroups: news.admin
- Subject: Re: "Computers graphic when it comes to porn"
- Message-ID: <a_rubin.713553791@dn66>
- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 11 Aug 92 17:23:11 GMT
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- In <C28IR9A@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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- >kadie@uiuc.edu (Carl Kadie writes:
- >>>|A problem is that very, very, very little of the material in alt.sex
- >>>|is obscene by the new Canadian definition, and yet the whole newsgroup
- >>>|has been removed from several universities.
-
- >>clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
- >>>When you find that the corn has individual kernels laced with strychnine,
- >>>that it's not practical to screen it, and the consequences can
- >>>be rather nasty of letting some of the contaminated stuff through, you
- >>>have to dump the load.
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- >In article <1992Aug11.112000.4307@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
- >>No studies have claimed that sexual material is anywhere near as
- >>dangerous as poison.
-
- >I don't think Chris is concerned with the material itself. He's concerned
- >with the criminal prosecution that would result from carrying it.
-
- >>By analogy, considered as a whole, alt.sex has scientific, political,
- >>literary, and artistic value and therefore should not be banned as
- >>obscene.
-
- >OK, you're volunteering to be the test case?
-
- >Yes, it's a bad law. But, really, what alternative have the schools in
- >question got?
-
- In the Canadian cases, I don't see any. In the case of public US schools,
- the First Amendment does apply, and the school (probably) cannot make
- content-based decisions as to which newsgroups to accept. Note: I am not
- a lawyer, and I am also not saying that THIS situation is desirable either.
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