From: joseph@genome.wi.mit.edu (Joseph Sokol-Margolis)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 95 14:55:32 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Linking = Showing = Transferring?
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>>And Duncan's specific point remains:
>>
>>-- is it a violation of pornography laws (perhaps campus rules) to have a
>>home page with links to URLs containing pornographic images?
>>
>>-- is it a violation of _child pornography_ laws to have a home page with
>>links to URLs containing child pornography images? (The URLs could be
>>offshore, perhaps in jurisdictions where the age of consent is much
>>different than in the U.S., e.g., Denmark or Thailand.)
>>
>>-- is it a violation of national security laws to have a home page with
>>links to URLs containing national defense secrets? (The URLs could be
>>offshore.)
>>
>>-- is it a violation of copyright/patent laws to have home pages with
>>pointers to protected material? (Songs, written works, images, inventions,
>>etc.)
>>
>>And so on....

Here's my question, and a thought to ponder: If it is/becomes illegal to
have links on a homepage to pornography because it is ruled as the same as
having the pornography there; then can you have links to pages with links
(the same as having it) to pornography? This repeats, so would it be legal
to links at all?

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