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Re: What is pornography, anyway?

#3775
From: Rick Kelly
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:24
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In article <1992Nov20.160910.1203@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
>In article <9211191517.47@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>
>[about child porn/porn/obscenity definitions]
>
>>I have enough doubts about this, that I would not gate a.b.p.e through
>>my system.  If the state authorities confiscated my system as evidence,
>>I would expect to never see it again, whether I won in court or not.

>   All that can be said here is that it is a very sad case when a person
>refrains from an action that they might otherwise take because of a fear
>of the effects of a wrongful prosecution. Very sad.

When a witch hunt is going on, it is better not to look like a witch.

>   Isn't it true that the seizure of property in these cases (video stores
>included) (and in the USA) are based on the RICO (organized crime) laws?
>Am I the only one that thinks that applying RICO laws to video stores is
>wrong? 

No, I believe it is just simple laws of evidence.

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Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway?
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:24:17 GMT
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