From: <thebridge@andau.com> Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest Subject: The celeb site illegal in Texas Date: 3 Aug 1997 10:20:21 GMT Organization: Commuter Communication Systems, Austin TX Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5s1m15$2m6$732@quest.ccsi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: savage24.ccsi.com Xref: news.znet.com alt.binaries.pictures.joanne-guest:5351
The fakes page, along with the XXX passwords page, is the one that got me in trouible with the law ans the community action groups. I used to have these two pages in the free access web, and it seems that many
One way "voluntary" age ratings--very similar to PICS ratings--may be mandated is through the kind of "plea agreement" cited below. (I don't know if this site is real or not, but the post presents a scenario which will become more common, I think.) Someone writes something, or has a site, and is busted for some charge. (There are many, even with what remains of the First Amendment. Child porn, obscenity, the new copyright laws, the Anti-Terrorism Act, etc.) A nolo contendre or guilty plea to a lesser charge is entered, with the agreement that an age verification system will be used, or a PICS rating, etc. And so the government gets the kind of censorship it wants. (Duncan will likely argue that this is impossible to enforce. Maybe in the limit, in the sense that some will fall through the cracks. But the dangers to anyone hosting words or pictures on their sites is very real. As more and more ISPs drop controversial material--think of several recent cases, and perhaps even the case of our own John Young--and as more child porn/celebrity nude/obscenity cases are filed....by the time the Thomases are both out of prison, most sites will likely be heavily editing themselves, imposing age limits, and using PICS ratings.) The article is below. --Tim May people found it objectionable that kids could get to the "Celebrity Blowjobs" and other work. They were right. I was wrong. I tried the Ulysses argument, but they just wouldn't accept the rationale that watching Kathy Lee give head had serious and important literary value. By the way, this is the same page that generated the two-page write-up in Internet Underground.
So, I copped a plea, agreed to Adult Verification. Anyway, there is age
verification now, and I am free to offend the adults of my community, and hopefully all communities everywhere.
AdultSights members......you're there dudes.
non-members, you can get one instantly (also gets you in to my passwords page, my Encyclopedia (2200 celebs),
and much more, plus 2,000 other sites)