Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: alt.sex,news.misc
Subject: alt.sex to become illegal in New Jersey?
Message-ID: <3246@looking.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 06:03:10 GMT
Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo Ont.
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New Jersey legislators are working on a bill to outlaw distribution
of "obscene" sexually-explicit material over home computers.

The bill passed 4-0 in committee, and will allow fine or imprisonment
for computer distribution of obsence stuff.  The whole assembly will vote
on it shortly.  "Obscene" is to be defined later, I think, and will, they
say, not include erotica and soft-core, etc.

From Charles Bowen's "Networker's Journal," the following quote:

     Fellow sponsor Thomas Shusted, chairman of the judiciary committee, added,
"Many school-age children use home computers for schoolwork and recreational
purposes. I'm sure parents would feel more comfortable if this type of smut was
banned from computer network systems."


This is not the first such law that might make net material, from alt.sex
to my favourite group, illegal.  But the number of these laws is growing,
folks.  Sigh.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473