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Article #49Re: Censoring innapropriate postiongs?
From: John Nagle
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:15
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:15
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It's unclear if censorship by a sysop makes the sysop's liability
situation better or worse. The main case so far (Cubby vs CompuServ)
suggests that it may be safer not to censor and just be a transmission
medium, rather than exercise editorial power and become a "publisher"
responsible for the material. So if you start censoring, maybe you'd better not
miss any. At least get legal advice before you start censoring; you may
be increasing your liability.
If you find something that looks like "child pornography" under
current U.S. law, you can report it to the FBI and let them go after the
original source.
It may be worth revisiting this issue on the legislative and
policy front after January 20.
John Nagle
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Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) Subject: Re: Censoring innapropriate postiongs? Message-ID: <1992Nov10.191550.29947@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Nov8.082741.20375@odin.corp.sgi.com> <BxEt8x.EMF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:15:50 GMT Lines: 16