From: James Fidell <james@corp.netcom.net.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:57:18 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com (James A. Donald)
Subject: Re: "The Observer" calls the internet a child pornography ring
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> Banner Front page headline in the British Observer, Sunday 25th
> 
> "The Peddlers of child abuse"
> see http://scallywag.com/
> 
> The internet is presented as a conspiracy by child molesters.
> 
> There is a picture of Johan Helsingius, the man who free of charge
> provides an anonymous remailer service:  The picture is captioned "The
> internet middle man who handles 90% of all child pornography"  He is
> represented as personally profiting from the distribution of child
> pornography, though in fact no posts to binary newsgroups can go
> through his system, and no large binaries can go through his system,
> and he provides the anonymising service free of charge.
>
> There is a picture of Clive Feather, the man who runs the largest
> internet service provider in Britain, captioned "The school governor
> who sells access to photos of child rape"]]

I'm not sure even Clive would claim that he "runs the largest ISP in
Britain" :-)

> The observer article savagely demonizes all who use the internet,
> presenting it as primarily existing for the purpose of distributing
> child pornography, and demonizes and libels by name those who have
> sought to defend the liberty of netizens.
> 
> I urge you all to check out this article, and send snail mail letters
> to the observer condemning (since they are obviously too low tech to
> read email) and email letters of support to those netizens who have
> been savagely libeled for their defence of liberty.

They do have a WWW site -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/observer/
The only feedback address I could find is nml@guardian.co.uk

James.
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