[421] in Cypherpunks
Re: BBSs under fire! (or on fire, if BATF gets into the act!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 19 15:54:22 1993
To: smb@research.att.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 1993 15:29:08 EDT."
Reply-To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:44:27 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
smb@research.att.com says:
> >> Now, maybe I missed something, but I have yet to see the secret ser
> vice raid
> >> ftparchive.blah.edu, or UNM where I work, for 'pandering'.
>
> You missed it. It has happened. MIT used to run an alt.sex.bondage
> stories server. Someone would read a.s.b., cull out the stories and
> make them available for anonymous ftp.
>
> It's happening again, even as we speak. The UNC public access system
> is being criticized by the local Fox TV station for providing access to
> ``pornography'' to kids.
Rupert Murdoch rides again -- hypocritical yellow journalism at its
finest. I imagine the Fox folks would never dream of criticizing the
Page 3 girls in all of Murdoch's UK papers -- which, after all, any
kid can paruse at will.
Perry
