Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Illegality of alt.sex (WAS: Re: USSR International Computer Club
Message-ID: <496@telly.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 04:34:21 GMT
References: <825@afit-ab.arpa> <24302@apple.Apple.COM> <2393@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <5735@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2421@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <6006@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <6006@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes:
>In article <2421@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
> 
>)Also, some states consider various explicit descriptions
>)"illegal".  Also, Canada has some rather harsh laws regarding
>)importation of "obscene material".  In this sense alt.sex could
>)be so considered.
>
>	There are other riders on those 'explicit desciptions'
>clauses, such as no social value etc., that make them there as an
>aid in defining 'obscene' material.  I think you'll find it is the
>obscenity, not the explicit descriptions, that are illegal.  And
>Canada's laws on obscenity are as vague as our own.  *If* the
>Canadian laws would consider alt.sex illegal (which I doubt) then
>it is the SA's job to not accept that news group, in which case no
>law is broken, eh?

As I have seen it, Canada's pornography laws allow border seizures
of explicitly sexual material (ie, depicting penetration). They
have also kept a few issues of Penthouse and Hustler out of the
country.

The only time I remember porno laws enforced against the written
word was some time ago. A Toronto gay magazine was prosecuted for
publishing an article which allegedly advocated soliciting young
boys for sex. I don't remember the outcome, nor did I read the
original article.

I have no qualms carrying alt.sex on this Canadian site, though
I will limit its access here to those over 18. (I will assume
responsibilitty of enforcing this age limit to the best of my
ability.)

>)The point is that only one crusading States Attorney
>)or southren[sic] High Sheriff[sic] is all that is required to
>)make a stink.

>	Agreed.  The question is, would he have a federal foot
>to stand on?  I don't think so.

Who needs an attorney or legal grounds? Look at all the shit kicked
up by one student offended by a joke. No courts necessary.

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Evan Leibovitch, System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
         evan@telly.on.ca / {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!telly!evan
  And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."