Word: antiporn
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...Even antiporn feminist Andrea Dworkin thinks the battle has been lost. "People don't have a sense of outrage that women are hurt. They don't seem to care," she says. Her 1979 tract, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, just went out of print for lack of buyers. "It makes me ill, but it may be related to who's winning and who's losing here. Larry Flynt isn't facing the demise of Hustler." Her colleague Michigan law professor Catherine MacKinnon agrees. "Society has made the decision they want the abuse to continue rather than to stop...
Internet pornographers, watch out. Stung by Republican complaints and egged on by antiporn activists, the Justice Department recently told federal prosecutors to crack down on smut. "Investigation and prosecution of Internet obscenity is particularly suitable for federal resources," Deputy Attorney General ERIC HOLDER wrote in a June 10 memo sent to U.S. Attorneys and obtained by TIME, which emphasized that no website is too insignificant. "Prosecution of cases involving relatively small distributors can have a deterrent effect...
Internet pornographers, watch out. Stung by Republican complaints and egged on by antiporn activists, the Justice Department recently told federal prosecutors to crack down on smut. "Investigation and prosecution of Internet obscenity is particularly suitable for federal resources," Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June 10 memo -- sent to U.S. attorneys and obtained by TIME -- which emphasized that no web site is too insignificant. "Prosecution of cases involving relatively small distributors can have a deterrent effect...
...Death of the CDA The ill-conceived and overbroad Communications Decency Act got the early grave it deserved. The Supreme Court, in ruling the smut bill unconstitutional, gave the First Amendment a firm foothold in cyberspace. Antiporn activists were not deterred, however; a more narrowly focused cda II has already landed in the Senate...
...known by everyone who has followed its tortured history, is the controversial antiporn bill passed by Congress and signed into law last year by President Bill Clinton. The act makes it a federal crime to put online, where children might see it, not just the obscene or the pornographic but any "indecent" word or image--a prohibition so vague that it might criminalize an AIDS-awareness lesson. Proponents argue that without such strictures, any child cruising the Net would have, as Waxman told the court, "a free pass into the equivalent of every adult bookstore and video store...