🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov10.074320.5826@ais.com> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:

   As for the original topic, given the current laws in the US it's
   probably only a matter of time until one site or another on the
   alt.net gets into some trouble over copyrighted or `pornographic'
   material, especially if the sysadmin doesn't make any effort at all
   to remove such questionable material.  (Which doesn't necessarily
   mean a major effort to screen the material, just keeping an eye out
   and removing articles that claim to be from copyrighted sources or
   that are identified as questionable -- say in discussions such as
   this one -- would probably be sufficient to prevent prosecution.
   Ignoring the potential for problems would likely _not_ be sufficient).

Telephone companies are not required to listen in on conversations and
disconnecting circuits which are carrying illegal ones.  In fact they
are prohibited from monitoring conversations, with few exceptions.
Why should that be any different for me?  I am perfectly willing to
respond to a complaint from any of my news users about illegal
material, just like a phone company, but I should not have to screen
all my incoming news to avoid prosecution.
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