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Re: Child Pornography (A proposed solution)

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From: Alan Hargreaves
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.
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From: alan@frey.newcastle.edu.au (Alan Hargreaves)
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Subject: Re: Child Pornography (A proposed solution)
Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:39:48 +1100
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Keywords: Pornography Legal Child Porn