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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [news.sysadmin, et al.] a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?)
- Message-ID: <BxGvrq.MxA@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:02:13 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Lines: 46
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
- Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin,news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
- Subject: a.b.p.e. distribution (was, Re: Does USENET condone CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?)
- Message-ID: <josh.721329561@mowgli>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:19:21 GMT
-
- Man, that's some keyword list...
-
- Here at the U of Washington, alt.sex.pictures (the forerunner of
- alt.binaries.pictures.erotica) was removed from the feed for a
- couple of reasons:
-
- 1) It's pornography! Tax dollars paying for pornography! Eeeeewwww!
-
- I don't have a lot of sympathy for that line, actually...my tax
- dollars pay for evil all over the world, why draw the line at
- pictures of people with no clothes on?
-
- 2) Much or all of the material distributed in the group is copyright
- material, distributed without permission of the author.
-
- This argument, it seems to me, holds some weight. It would be, of
- course, illegal to distribute copyright material without the permission
- of the creator of the work. Elf's stories, for example, have been
- posted by Elf. Fair enough. a.b.p.e. has recently contained, for
- example, scans of Sports Illustrated swimsuit shots, I gather. This
- is a no-no.
-
- I think net.users (and certainly net.administrators) have to make
- decisions on this matter: is it likely that their particular piece
- of .net will disappear if they continue (or begin) to carry this
- froup? Is it worth it to them/their users to run that risk? Here
- the administrators argued, successfully, that we could lose large
- chunks of network access as a consquence of carrying this a.s.p.;
- it was deep-sixed. No complaint from me.
-
- Josh Hayes
-
- --
- Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
- josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu 206 543-5004
- We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand.
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-