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Re: What about child pornography?

#244
From: Paul M. Moriarty
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:59
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In article <1992Nov9.074157.8520@iscsvax.uni.edu> connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly) writes:
>In article <BxF1uy.Bzs@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
>> } ...
>> }  We carry all the pictures groups, and we wish to continue to carry
>> }them, but what ABOUT child pornography? I really don't want us to be a
>> }passive distributor of this stuff. I am getting complaints from *fans*
>> }of the group that some postings are going too far. 
>> 
>> How about this amazingly radical concept...
>> 
>>   If something is illegal for your site, you delete it from your site.
>
>And you have time to screen this stuff?  Or anyone on your staff has time? 
>Let's get realistic about this, John.
>

Additionally, one can argue that if a site enacts a policy to ban certain
groups, it is giving implicit approval to all of the remaining ones that it
chooses to carry.


-> Paul <-
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From: pmm@netcom.com (Paul M. Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,news.admin.policy
Subject: Re: What about child pornography?
Message-ID: <1992Nov11.185927.18049@netcom.com>
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:59:27 GMT
References: <BETSYS.92Nov7122437@ra.cs.umb.edu> <BxF1uy.Bzs@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov9.074157.8520@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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