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- From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: HOLONET? YOu BET!
- Message-ID: <By2rB9.GM9@access.digex.com>
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- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
- References: <BxyLBM.HKG@iat.holonet.net> <1992Nov20.092353.29036@disk.uucp> <1992Nov20.235243.18874@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:33:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.235243.18874@anomaly.sbs.risc.net> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
- >If your system offers "open access", with full USENET reading privs without
- >age verification, you'd better put some restrictions on various groups like
- >alt.sex, rec.arts.erotica, etc., otherwise you'll find 1) some sensationalist
- >local newsperson, or 2) the local district attorney breathing down your back
- >and no doubt confiscating your equipment for "distributing pornographic
- >materials to minors".
- >
- >If some 13 year old wants to discuss masterbation techniques, fine, he can
- >do it on his own system.
- >
- >MD
-
- Indeed. When we started the Express Access service, we had to
- deal with this policy question. We decided that we were not
- comfortable with getting into the editor/censor business, and
- our lawyer agreed that was a slipery slope, so we exercise no
- editorial control at all, take any group that a user wants, etc.
- Because of this, users must be 18 or older, and our contract
- states that. We realized that by taking the "open" stance it
- could limit our user community, but in these times when people
- sue at a drop of a hat, there was little choice.
-
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