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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Net.Porn ?
Keywords: porn, underage, lawsuit
Message-ID: <535@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 18:27:19 GMT
References: <1278@cbnews.ATT.COM> <509@optilink.UUCP> <1957@spdcc.COM> <1960@spdcc.COM>
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <1960@spdcc.COM>, dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
> Luckily, the vapidity of the argument that soc.motss would further the end
> of the net-as-we-know-it was evident when the arguments for the group were
> successfully presented 6 years ago.  Back then it was the mucky-mucks seeing
> the group and pulling the plug on a site's entire USENET feed, now it's some
> imaginary bogey-man of underage minors seeing soc.motss and, through being
> "encouraged", engendering a lawsuit.  This is baseless and moronic fear-
> mongering when you consider the swill that's routinely slung across the
> USENET phone lines which hasn't even generated a note of concern.

> Steve Dyer

I'm really quite surprised -- especially considering how lawsuit crazy
certain lawyers are.  Consider the lawsuits about 976 services, and
tell me how unlikely it is that someone won't do the same when they
find little Johnny reading alt.sex or soc.motss.


-- 
Clayton E. Cramer
..!ames!pyramid!kontron!optilin!cramer