From: ped@well.com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.politics.datahighway
Subject: TIME on CDA decision
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 06:49:16 -0400
Organization: TIME Magazine

TIME did not run a CDA cover story, but it did give larger play to the CDA
decision this week than any of the other newsweeklies. The text of the
Josh Quittner's story, Noah Robischon's sidebar, Netly News dispatches,
all sorts of screening software and other relevant stuff are available at

http://pathfinder.com/technology/netdecency/

-- 
Philip Elmer-DeWitt                                           ped@well.com
TIME Magazine                                          www.pathfinder.com 





From: jmeltzer@world.std.com (Jonathan Meltzer)
Subject: Re: TIME on CDA decision
Organization: The World, Public Access Internet, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:25:07 GMT


In article ,
Philip Elmer-DeWitt  wrote:
>TIME did not run a CDA cover story, but it did give larger play to the CDA
>decision this week than any of the other newsweeklies. The text of the
>Josh Quittner's story, Noah Robischon's sidebar, Netly News dispatches,
>all sorts of screening software and other relevant stuff are available at

I liked the part about Bianca's Smut Shack. 




From: destiny@wco.com (David Cassel)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.politics.datahighway,alt.culture.internet,alt.culture.usenet,misc.news.internet.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: TIME on CDA decision
Followup-To: alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.politics.datahighway
Date: 24 Jun 1996 02:05:50 GMT
Organization: West Coast Online, Inc.


Philip "Cyberporn" Elmer-DeWitt  wrote:


>TIME did not run a CDA cover story, but it did give larger play to the CDA
>decision this week than any of the other newsweeklies. 


Jonathan Meltzer (jmeltzer@world.std.com) wrote:

: I liked the part about Bianca's Smut Shack. 
 

I didn't.  Talk about trivializing the issues...

 
     It's been a suspenseful spring in cyberspace. Everyone has felt it,
     from the folks who gather for online chats at Bianca's Smut Shack to
     the Netizens who post daily dispatches to the "fight censorship"
     E-mail list.


That's the lead.


     But the legislation
     was so vague and broad that uploading Ulysses to the World Wide Web
     could have been construed as a felony offense punishable by a
     $250,000 fine and two years in jail. If that's the kind of treatment
     James Joyce would get, what hope would there be for poor Bianca and
     her Smut Shack?

Too bad the story doesn't also mention Stop Prison Rape, AIDS Awareness
projects, or sex education sites.


     The question of community standards hasn't been adequately solved in
     any medium," says Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe.
     Bianca, it seems, is not yet out of the woods.


"Court Rules in Favor of Bianca's Smut Shack".


I'd think Time would be a little more sensitive to oversimplifying the
issues...


     The proponents of the CDA are fueled by outrage that hard-core
     pornography can be found on a computer network to which children
     have access. 


But we know why they didn't...

     But the Philadelphia jurists (two Bush appointees, one Carter) found
     no indication that children were at particular risk to exposure to
     smut online--TIME's controversial "cyberporn" cover story last
     summer notwithstanding.


Complete coverage of Time's ongoing demonization of the internet is
available at http://www.crl.com/~destiny/dewitt.htm#time



>The text of the
>Josh Quittner's story, Noah Robischon's sidebar, Netly News dispatches,
>all sorts of screening software and other relevant stuff are available at
>http://pathfinder.com/technology/netdecency/

I tried the link to "Software filters:  How well do they work?" 
using Lynx, but couldn't find the story.  Just "Hell hath no fury like a 
councilman porned."


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Newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.politics.datahighway
From: jmeltzer@world.std.com (Jonathan Meltzer)
Subject: Re: TIME on CDA decision
Organization: The World, Public Access Internet, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 03:56:41 GMT

In article <4qkt5u$3ei@news.wco.com>, David Cassel  wrote:
>
>Jonathan Meltzer (jmeltzer@world.std.com) wrote:
>
>: I liked the part about Bianca's Smut Shack.
>
>I didn't.  Talk about trivializing the issues...
>
My point exactly, for the sarcasm-impaired ...




From: croaker@access.digex.net (Francis A. Ney, Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.politics.datahighway
Subject: Re: TIME on CDA decision
Date: 24 Jun 1996 11:56:50 -0400
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

In article  ped@well.com writes:

> TIME did not run a CDA cover story, but it did give larger play to the CDA
> decision this week than any of the other newsweeklies. The text of the
> Josh Quittner's story, Noah Robischon's sidebar, Netly News dispatches,
> all sorts of screening software and other relevant stuff are available at
>
> http://pathfinder.com/technology/netdecency/
>
> --
> Philip Elmer-DeWitt                                           ped@well.com
> TIME Magazine                                          www.pathfinder.com

Still not good enough, DeWitless.

A Time mag front cover stating "WE LIED" is good enough.

Taking youself out of the gene pool, with witnesses, in Times Square, is good
enough.


This "larger play" bullshit is NOT good enough.

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