🚀 go-pugleaf

     I have a modest suggestion for dealing with the child pornography
problem. I hope it is implemented (or something similar) before some
university or BBS get prosecuted for distribution of child pornography.

     I suggest that administrators and system operators who find child
pornography appearing on their systems cancel the offending messages
immediately. I know people are going to scream censorship, but the
alternative is for systems to stop carrying the newsgroups that
encourage (directly or indirectly) the posting of child pornograhy.

     I know there will be complaints about who judges what is and is
not child pornography, but those posting must remember that these
messages get forwarded to many countries and some of them may have
very restrictive laws. The best defense is a good offense.

     You certainly have the right to post what you wish, but if you
break the law, expect action. I hope system operators begin issuing
warnings and then placing restrictions, if necessary. Let's show
the world that we are capable of policing ourselves, and then no
policing from the outside will be necessary.

SJK

The Siphon (SIPHON@momad.uucp)

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, never to live for the
sake of another man, nor to ask another man to live for mine."