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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway?
- Message-ID: <BxtEJ3.50I@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <josh.721618381@mowgli> <BxMu36.IM9@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.153824.27660@news.columbia.edu> <9211150013.37@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:18:39 GMT
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- >But the bottom of the line federal line in the US is:
- >
- >Depictions of children under the age of 18 engaged in sex or posed to
- >sexually tittilate are illegal.
-
- I don't have a copy of the law, but it is refered to in the Supreme
- Court's _Keith Jacobson v. United States_ decision, 90-1124:
-
- "[The law] requires only knowing receipt of visual depictions
- produced by using minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
- See 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2); United States v. Moncini, 882 F.2d
- 401, 404-406 (CA9 1989)." [Info on on-line access to recent
- Court decisions enclosed.]
-
- This is consistent the only legitimate purpose of child pornography
- laws: to stop people from sexually abusing childern in order to make
- pornography.
-
- >The government does not have to prove whether it is pornographic or not.
- [...]
-
- Huh? [Info on on-line access to the U.S. Contitution enclosed.]
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- * Constitution -- U.S. -- Full Text
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- The Constitution of the United States
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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