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- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
- Subject: Re: What about child pornography?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.161741.2429@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:17:41 GMT
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- In article <BETSYS.92Nov10193758@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
- >In my case, I feel literally in the middle because we DO feed some
- >sites, and some of my users HAVE complained about child pornography in
- >the alt.binaries.pictures.groups.
-
- This goes right to the heart of the problem, as far as I am concerned.
- I keep a fairly close eye on a.b.p.e, and I have seen nothing that I feel
- certain is child pornography.
- The only thing that may be illegal is the perennial Traci Lords stuff (low
- resolution and fuzzy) that may be from her legal films anyway.
- I think some of the confusion over this is a misunderstanding of what
- legal and illegal mean in terms of pornogrphy. As I understand it, nothing
- is illegal until it is ruled so by a court, and even then it only applies
- locally. There is no test for pornographic content in terms of child porn,
- and there is no test for obscenity in terms of other porn. I may be wrong,
- but I haven't heard is reasonably argued otherwise.
-
- By 'test', I mean a procedure where you can determine if what you produce
- is legal or not. And I think that both child and obscene porn must be judged
- to lack serious artistic, educational, or scientific value.
-
- DanZ
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