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- Volume 1, Number 1 March 12, 1989
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- | International Adult Weekly |
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- | Edited by The Ambassador |
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- | Published at 00:05(GMT) Every Saturday |
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- | Requestable as ADULTNEWS from 2:254/12 |
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- This publication is placed into the public domain by
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- Due to the nature of the material contained within this
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- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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- 1. EDITORIALS
- The Editor Says ............................................. 1
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- 2. ARTICLES & STORIES
- Very Interesting Reading ..................................... 2
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- 3. System List's and Anouncements
- Particpating systems ........................................ 4
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- The Ambassador
- The London Embassy
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- Well first off sorry this is late but until today 12 march I have not
- had any articles or the like to publish!
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- But in view of the article that appeared in the pages of today's
- sunday times regarding teh availbilty of adult files I thought that
- everyone should read this and make up the own minds as to a course of
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- A R T I C L E S & S T O R I E S
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- "CHILDREN TUNE INTO COMPUTER PORN BY PHONE" Sunday Times 12 March 89
- by Jane Bird, Rosemary Collins & Barrie Penrose
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- Hard-core pronographic pictures that can be viewed by children with home
- computers are available by making a telephone call. They include
- photographs of sex acts, and are more explicit than anything that can be
- bought over the counter in Britain.
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- The pictures are transmitted by computer enthusiasts using the latest
- technology to set up a worldwide network of electronic sex clubs.
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- By typing in a simple code, a Sunset Times reporter was able last week
- to choose from a selection of British and American pornography. Within
- minutes, we saw close-up colour photographs of a couple having
- intercourse and a demonstration of oral sex.
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- The scenes, in clear breach of obscenity laws, were described as
- "horrifying" by Dianne Core, founder of Childwatch, the anti child-abuse
- group, who last week alerted Scotland Yard's obscene publications squad.
- A police spokesman said last night the material would be investigated
- abnd could be seized.
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- The vivid pictures are possible because of advances in technology which
- have made home computer images almost as realistic as television. Access
- is via a modem, a device common in schools, which transmit data over a
- telephone line. Children proficient in computer use would find it easy
- to call up the pornography files on their screens.
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- last week we viewed hard and soft-core images chosen from dozens of
- lists compiled by computer hobbyists. The enthusiasts exchange phone
- numbers and advertise their clubs, known as buletin boards, in computer
- magazines.
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- One list, compiled by a 16-year-old computer operator and his father who
- works for British Telecom, offered us 100 titles, such as Raw Sex, and
- Madam Fifi's Whore House Adventure. Others portrayed scenes of group,
- oral and gay sex.
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- Ian gregson and his father, Arthur,47, who operate the bulletin board
- from their family home in Bradford, compiled the list simply by
- "down-loading" material from other British and foreign bulletin boards
- and adding it to their own. Similar scenes in magazines would be
- illegal.
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- New recruits are able to sign on and gain instant access to the
- pornography files.
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- Yesterday Ian Gregson said that 11-year-old children were among the 670
- users of his bulletin board, while youngsters as young as 14 had viewed
- the pornography. "The pornographic files are by far the most popular. I
- would not be happy about very young kids seeing it, but you don't know
- if people are lying about their age."
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- Gregson said he had not considered that the explicit files might be a
- breach of the Obscene Publications Act. "They are all labelled correctly
- as X-rated and if people want to look at it, it's up to them," he said.
- "It is up to parents to watch what their kids are looking at, but I
- think most kids of 14 or 15 would know about the sort of stuff I offer."
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- One bulletin board based in Ilminster, Somerset, invited us to play an
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- explicit adventure game and offered a lurid, moving cartoon of
- intercourse entitled Pervert. Another, compiled by Jeremy Gumbley, 18, a
- computer science student from Solihull, contained a porn list with more
- than 220 titles on offer.
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- Last night Gumbley said he had deleted his porn files following The
- Sunset Times investigation and added: "My users are pretty angry that
- they can't get it any more." Previously, Gumbley, whose bulletin board
- attracts 150 regular users, had admitted that some under-18-year-olds
- could tune in to his lists.
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- Hard-core pornography is also available to computer hobbyists of all
- ages by mail order. We dialled one American company, Event Horizons of
- Portland, Oregon, whose catalogue offered more than 400 erotic pictures
- available on floppy discs at 5.30 each, including postage.
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- Jim maxey, who owns the family business, mails the hard-core porn around
- the world and has more than 50 regular customers in Britain. He said
- that he did not regard his material as pornographic: "I see nothing
- wrong with human sexuality, but I do draw the line at child porn,
- violence or bestiality. What we ofer is just good healthy sex.
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- I would rather supply pictures of scenic mountain rivers and streams,
- but by far the largest percentage of my customers want to have adult
- material."
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- Veronica Wray, a London mother who has campaigned against computer
- pornography, said its unchecked existence made a mockery of obscenity
- laws. "If children can be subjected to hard-core porn by picking up a
- phone, what is the point of having men's magazines on the top shelf?"
- she said.
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- MPs last night condemned the uncontrolled growth of high-tech
- pornography. Terry Lewis, the Labour MP whose three-year campaign
- succeeded in shutting down chatlines, said it was another example of
- "corrupting" material transmitted over telephone lines. He is drafting a
- private member's bill to eliminate the computer porn on Britain's
- telephone network.
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- Sir Nicholas Bonsor, a Tory MP who has tried prevoiusly to strengthen
- Britain's obscenity laws, said: "The idea our children can get hold of
- material like this when they're looking at computer screens has got to
- be stamped on."
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- the law governing obscenity has not kept pace with moern technology,
- according to Jim Brookes, chief executive of the British Computer
- Society. "This case is analogous to children being able to go into sex
- shops and browse. The legislators haven't woken up to the electronic
- age."
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- Richard du Cann, QC, a former chairman of the Bar Council, said that
- although computer pornography had never been tested in court, he had no
- doubt such images were illegal. He said material transmitted through a
- computer link could have the same corrupting effect as magazine or
- filmed pornography.
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- British Telecom last night promised to investigate the pornographic
- transmissions. A spokesman said that although BT was "not a guardian of
- the nation's morals", it was concerned at the misuse of it's phone
- lines.
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- Re-typed by the PintCrusher!
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- S y s t e m L i s t ' s a n d A n o u n c e m e n t s
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- This is a current list of participating systems around the world.
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- System Location Phone number Node No.
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- The London Embassy London,UK 01-366-1778 2:254/12
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- The Strange Brew! Croydon,UK 01-688-5756 2:254 /19
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- The Connection London,UK 01-978-8540 2:254/2
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- The Penguin Yorkshire,UK 0943-830820 2:258/43
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- Frix Reading,UK 0734-420229 2:253/112
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- White Lightning Reading,UK 0635-37259 2:257/9
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- Komputer Knowledge Kings Risbro' 0844-274065 2:257/19
- UK
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- BBS09 QuickBBS HST Portsmouth,UK 0705-736025 2:251/11
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- No Place Like Home University 301-454-0360 1:109/506
- Park, MD USA
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- Falcons Rock University 301-217-9058 1:109/501
- Park, MD USA
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- The Dungeon Sunnyvale,CA USA 408-992-0846 1:143/40
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- Any Systems wishing to join the Echo's Please Contact the System
- nearest you for details to link in.
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