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- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!wsu-cs!vela!cs.uiuc.edu!kadie
- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [comp.admin.policy, et al.] Re: What about child pornography?
- Message-ID: <BxIDFJ.AsI@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.admin.policy,news.admin.policy
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:21:19 GMT
- Lines: 37
-
- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres)
- Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,news.admin.policy
- Subject: Re: What about child pornography?
- Message-ID: <159@ima.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 08:26:08 GMT
-
- In article <BxF1uy.Bzs@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
-
- > How about this amazingly radical concept...
- >
- > If something is illegal for your site, you delete it from your site.
-
- How about another amazingly radical concept...
-
- Most sites (or at least those not part of .edu) are around for reasons other
- than to just support news, and their admins perform news administration as
- a peripheral activity. To monitor every single image that goes through a
- site with a full alt feed is a *very* significant resource in time, one in
- which most companies will not be able to cost justify. I doubt that all
- administrators will be dying to spend all their waking non-billable hours
- monitoring this stuff just to make sure they did not miss some illegal posting.
-
- Lets get real about this - either we are able to police ourselves, or several
- (many?) sites will join the ranks of those banning the erotic picture groups
- from their sites. Only this time, those choosing to censor the groups will
- be doing so due to the legal implications of carrying the traffic, not
- necessarily because of how they feel toward the actual images posted. There
- will not be any facist admins to blame this time around - only those foolish
- posters that could not control what they posted.
-
- Regards,
-
- Tim Kehres
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-