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Article #3270Re: Child Pornography (A proposed solution)
From: Alan Hargreaves
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 03:39
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 03:39
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siphon@momad.UUCP (Stimpson J. Katz) writes: > 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. hmmm do you have any concept of just how much news flows into a site in a day? I can't speak for other sys admins, but I have much better things to do with my time than scan all the news for artciles that I have to cancel. alan. -- Alan Hargreaves (VK2KVF) alan@frey.newcastle.edu.au, Uni of Newcastle, UCS. Ph: +61 49 215 512 Fax: +61 49 684 742 ICBM: 32 53 44.6 S / 151 41 52.6 E Software Bloat - Any UNIX(tm) after Version 7. (Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!frey.newcastle.edu.au!frey.newcastle.edu.au!not-for-mail From: alan@frey.newcastle.edu.au (Alan Hargreaves) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Child Pornography (A proposed solution) Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:39:48 +1100 Organization: Maths Department, University of Newcastle, Oz. Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1dkmi4INN3tj@frey.newcastle.edu.au> References: <VPyuTB2w165w@momad.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: frey.newcastle.edu.au Keywords: Pornography Legal Child Porn