[9051] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Wed Dec 15 11:16:17 1993
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 10:13:39 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Clay Shirky's message of Wed, 15 Dec 1993 09:41:21 -0500 (EST) <199312151441.AA22149@panix.com>
>By doing this you are implicitly suggesting that you can be held accountable
>for the content of material not only stored on but retrieved from your
>system. To me this seems a dangerous precedent. *Far* more sexually explicit
>material is available by phone, but NYNEX doesn't require a waiver before
NYNEX is a common carrier. Big difference.
>It is important to remember that the supreme court recently struck
>down the proposed 24/7 ban on adult material on TV, ruling that concern for
>children could not be used to deny adult's access to it.
And the FCC is ignoring it.
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