[news.misc] Is alt.sex about to be legislated away?

weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (10/03/88)

In article <9644@cup.portal.com>, Ringworld-Engineer@cup writes:
>>			     ban sexually-explicit computer
>>transmission SUCH AS SEX-ORIENTED BULLETIN BOARDS

Just how is this defined?  Legally?

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720

henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/04/88)

In article <14954@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>>>transmission SUCH AS SEX-ORIENTED BULLETIN BOARDS
>
>Just how is this defined?  Legally?

Undoubtedly the answer is "vaguely".

"Pornography, n:  any form of literature that someone wishes to suppress."
-- 
The meek can have the Earth;    |    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (10/05/88)

In article <1988Oct4.154644.14502@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>>>transmission SUCH AS SEX-ORIENTED BULLETIN BOARDS
>>Just how is this defined?  Legally?
>Undoubtedly the answer is "vaguely".

I did not mean how the word "pornography" is defined, but how "computer
transmission" of it is defined.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720

mjb%hoosier.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Mark J. Bradakis) (10/05/88)

I really doubt alt.sex will be legislated away, it is going to die its
own death under the weight of the CMU drivel piling up there.

mjb.

mjb@hoosier.utah.edu