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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: What about child pornography?
- Message-ID: <BxIDtp.B9y@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <BETSYS.92Nov7122437@ra.cs.umb.edu> <BxF1uy.Bzs@news.iastate.edu> <159@ima.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:29:49 GMT
- Lines: 62
-
- kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres) writes:
-
- [...]
- >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
- [...]
-
- The law seems to say that you are not reponsible for the distribution
- of material that can't and don't know about. (Without such law the
- First Amendment is almost worthless.)
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- law/cubby-v-compuserv
- =================
- * Expression -- Liability -- Cubby v. Compuserv
-
- Report of a federal district court case which said CompuServe could
- not be held liable for the defamatory content because it exercised no
- editorial control.
-
- =================
- law/student-publications.misc
- =================
- * Expression -- Offensive -- Student Publications -- Misc
-
- Quotes from the book _Law of the Student Press_ by the Student Press
- Law Center (1985,1988). They say that four-letter words are protected
- speech, that public universities are not likely to be liable for
- publications that they for which they do not control the contents, and
- that the _Hazelwood_ decision does not apply to universities.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
- gopher gopher.eff.org
-
- These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/law/cubby-v-compuserv
- pub/academic/law/student-publications.misc
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/law cubby-v-compuserv
- send acad-freedom/law student-publications.misc
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-