X-Message-Number: 5046 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 07:55:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Platt <> Subject: Small Net Correction > From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> > Subject: Re: FWD: ONLINE USERS STILL SMALL MINORITY > I'd like to know the actual question they asked. This is incredibly > muddled. Pornography is *already* illegal online (and offline) (in > the US), and always has been. Were people agreeing that it should > remain so? Keith, obscenity is a violation of federal law, but not pornography, with the exception of child pornography created using real human subjects. Some senators want to make adult pornography illegal as well--online, at least. Some states (such as New Jersey) already have their own laws that Exon would be proud of, theoretically making indecent language (whatever that means) illegal online; these laws have been adapted from laws prohibiting harassing phone calls and have been enacted with zero publicity. None of them has yet been tested in court. The ACLU has a new electronic newsletter on this kind of subject, and I've recently done an article about it for Wired magazine that I hope will appear early next year. Anyone who wants more info can email me direct at You can also check alt.censorship on Usenet once in a while. This of course has nothing to do with cryonics; but I know that many cryonicists value freedom of speech online, so I thought I'd just give the references here. --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5046