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From: abvax!iccgcc.decnet.ab.com!herrickd@uunet.UU.NET (daniel lance herrick)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Re: A view of CyberSpace
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Date: 17 Dec 90 14:43:34 GMT
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In article <12953@milton.u.washington.edu>, sequent!szabo@RELAY.CS.NET (Nick Sza
bo) writes:
[discussion of people mucking with other people's postings deleted]
> 
> If it is like the Internet, we can do just about anything with any media
> we like, as long is it is "fair use" | public domain.  
> I wonder what happens if, say, the moderator posts a
> GIF self-photograph, clothed, and, thru modern magic, the
> unclothed moderator appears in alt.sex.pictures?   Can the perpetrator, 
> if found, be sued?  Under what laws?  Can the perpetrator be kicked off 
> the Internet without recourse to the law?  Some of this is being 
> figured out on the Internet right now;

Well, at least it is being discussed. 

>news.admin makes for interesting 
> reading sometimes.

Always interesting, sometimes pompous, never seems to make as
much progress as the thread on consumer applications already
has here.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com