FC: Ashcroft tells Congress he'll take hard line on porn, piracy
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Sat Jun 9 10:07:57 PDT 2001
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Excerpts from hearing transcript:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/08/2143247&mode=thread
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44398,00.html
Ashcroft's Hard Line on Hardcore
By Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
2:00 a.m. June 9, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Look out, Internet sextrepreneurs: John Aschroft wants
you to serve hard time.
In explicit terms, the attorney general told Congress this week that
hardcore sex sites would no longer be selling peeks at
balloon-breasted babes.
"I am concerned about obscenity and I'm concerned about obscenity as
it relates to our children," Ashcroft said in his first appearance
before the House Judiciary Committee.
He said Justice Department prosecutors would help state officials
imprison sex-site operators that feature obscene images: "We try to be
especially accommodating to local law enforcement to assist them, and
I would think that would be an objective of ours in this respect."
A number of Republicans asked Ashcroft to pledge to prosecute raunch
and ribaldry, but Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia -- who also,
unbelievably, is co-chair of the Internet Caucus -- was the most
persistent.
"The failure of the (Clinton) administration to enforce those laws has
led to a proliferation of obscenity, both online and off," Goodlatte
said. "And I am particularly concerned about the safety of our
children on the Internet, where they're subjected to child pornography
and solicitation in a massive way."
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