[9209] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: sleaze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rose Marie Holt)
Tue Dec 21 19:02:05 1993
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 16:00:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Rose Marie Holt <rmholt@u.washington.edu>
To: Paul Robinson <PAUL@tdr.com>
Cc: Everyone Else Lurking on Com-Priv <com-priv@psi.com>,
In-Reply-To: <01.1993Dec21.06h05m36s.PAUL-c100000@TDR.COM>
Re: Illegelity depends upon point of origin, or does it?
What I predict will happen is that nations will address these issues in
trade and other treaty agreements and agree not to allow routing of
illegal (in the recipient's land) stuff into that land, with penalties,
one hopes, sufficient to keep the problem at a level low enough to keep
the participants as happy with one another as they want to be. In other
words, we might restrict and penalize kiddie porn headed to Canada more
heavily than Internet Free Iran stuff sent to, well, Iran.
Catching and penalizing the guilty parties would be a technical
challenge, raising all sorts of juicy big brother issues, so we have stay
up on this.
A related question that all seem to be ignoring: what about within the
USA? Stuff that might be considered illegal obscenity in Arkansas flies
through the Net from California all the time to Little Rock, I'll
wager.
Some day this question may come up
RM Holt
