From: abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 11:42:33 +0800
To: nobody@tjava.com
Subject: Re: US calls for measures against Internet porn
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In article <199601010034.SAA07422@tjava.com>,
nobody@tjava.com (Anonymous) wrote:

> Apologies if you've seen this before:
> 
>          WASHINGTON DC (Reuter) - The US called Sunday for improved
> management of the Internet to prevent people seeing pornographic
> material on the world computer network.
>          A joint statement from the Clinton administration's State
> Council (Cabinet) and the office of the Republican Party's Planning
> Committee said there were increasing links between domestic computer
> systems and the Internet.
>          ``Good use of the Internet is of great importance to increase
> global information exchanges, promote economic construction and
> develop science,'' the Associated Press quoted the statement as
> saying.
>          But because of weak management and lack of control over what
> enters the Internet, some pornographic and other harmful materials
> have come onto the system, it said. ``We must take effective measures
> to deal with this,'' it said.
>          German prosecutors said Friday they had launched an
> investigation into the U.S.-based online service CompuServe Inc on
> suspicion that members had sent child pornography over its worldwide
> computer network.
>          The inquiry prompted the service to block access to 200
> sexually-explicit Internet discussion groups and sites where
> pornographic pictures are available.
>          An explosion in use and ownership of modems in the US is
> giving an increasingly large number of people access to the Internet.
> 
> [The amazing thing is how _little_ editing was necessary.]
> 

Ummm.  Wasn't it *China* in today's original?

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