Area : ANEWS
Date : Sep 16 '95, 10:44
From : eskinews!nyxfer.blythe.org!nyt, 1:343/70
To   : All
Subj : Child Porn Witch Hunt


From: eskinews!nyxfer.blythe.org!nyt (NY Transfer News Collective)
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 13:44:36 -0400 (EDT)

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:18:36 -0400
From: Jonathan Ned Katz 

MEMO
RE: Alleged Child Porn
FROM:  Jonathan Ned Katz     jnkatz@pipeline.com

For those of you who didn't see it, The New York Times, on Thursday,
Sept. 14, ran a front-page story headed "Use of Computer Network for
Child Sex Sets Off Raids" (continued on page B14).

The story, written by David Johnston, said: "The Justice Department
today announced a dozen arrests in a two-year investigation into the
use of American Online, the country's largest computer network, to
distribute child portnogry and to lure minors into sex."

The reporter pointed out: "The culmination of the inquiry by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation comes at a time when the agency has
needed some favorable attention to offset a string of incidents that
cast it in a negative light."

It mentioned that Senator Orin Hatch, Utah, Republican has introduced
a bil that "would expand the definition of child pornography to
include any photography, film, videotape or computer image produced by
any means, including eletronically by computer, if it depicts or
appears to depict a minor in sexually explicit conduct."

"'Today, visual depictions of children engaging in any imaginable form
of sexual conduct can be produced entirely by computeer, without using
children , thereby placing such depictions outside the scope of
Federal law,' Mr. Hatch said in a statement."

IN OTHER WORDS, EVEN IF NO PHYSICAL CHILD IS EVER INVOLVED, ONLY A
COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE, YOU MAY GO TO JAIL FOR PRODUCING THIS IMAGE,
WATCHING IT THIS IMAGE, AND DISTRIBUTING THIS IMAGGE.  NOW THIS IS
REALLY NUTS!!!!!! THIS IS THE START OF A MAJOR WITCH HUNT UNLESS WE
ALL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  PROTEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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