🚀 go-pugleaf

pariah@iinet.com.au (Michael Malone) writes:

[...]
>I believe that many students at University are under the age of 18 in
>their first year. The University could very well be indicted for
>directly providing pornographic materials to these students. Even if
>a waiver is signed by the parents of these "children", I do not believe
>that this relieves the Uni from possible prosecution.
[...]

Hypothetically, a competent legal advisor might have used this legal
reasoning to conclude that a university should ban the newsgroups (and
lots of other material on campus). There is, however, no evidence that
any competent legal advisors were even consulted. Indeed, given that
alt.sexual.abuse.recovery was initially banned, it seems more likley
that action was taken summarily and without meaningful deliberation.

- Carl

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

=================<a href="http://www.eff.org/CAF/faq/computer-porn.html">
faq/computer-porn
=================</a>
* Banning "porn" from university computers
 
q: Should universities create a rule banning "porn" on university
computers?
 
a: In my opinion, no. Such a rule would be unnecessary and too broad.
...

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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 (192.77.172.4), and then:

  cd  /pub/CAF/faq
  get computer-porn

To get the file(s) by email, send email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Include the line(s):

  connect ftp.eff.org
  cd  /pub/CAF/faq
  get computer-porn
-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
 =Email: kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
 =URL: <http://www.eff.org/CAF/>, <ftp://ftp.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/kadie/> =