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Article #241Re: What about child pornography?
From: Elizabeth Schwartz
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:37
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:37
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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. We're not doing anything about it but it makes me really uncomfortable. As the previous posters have pointed out, we have no ability to screen EVERY message...screening message would only have some effect if a lot of sites did it. Of course, there will always be some site which dumps material, if only to test the limits or to prove that they can. However, it doesn't seem right to be told about the child pornography and just ignore it. We definitely want to keep the binaries groups...they are popular and may help ""sell" the service. I can't work up much enthusiasm for defending the groups if they are going to contain child pornography though. I know, there's a problem determining what is pornography, and whether pictures used real children or were altered or faked. Still...I wish the stuff wasn't here ...still wondering.... Betsy -- System Administrator Internet: betsys@cs.umb.edu MACS Dept, UMass/Boston BITNET:ESCHWARTZ%UMBSKY.DNET@NS.UMB.EDU 100 Morrissy Blvd Staccato signals Boston, MA 02125-3393 of constant information....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!hsdndev!news.cs.umb.edu!betsys From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Subject: Re: What about child pornography? Message-ID: <BETSYS.92Nov10193758@ra.cs.umb.edu> Date: 11 Nov 92 00:37:58 GMT References: <BETSYS.92Nov7122437@ra.cs.umb.edu> <BxF1uy.Bzs@news.iastate.edu> <159@ima.com> <BxIDtp.B9y@cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@cs.umb.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 16: 29:49 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ra.cs.umb.edu