Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate it's S2375, in theHouse HR4922 -- forces telephone companies to make any new networks they develop"wiretap ready" for the FBI; Congress has set aside $500 million over four yearsto reimburse the corporations for compliance. However, an earlier draft of thelegislation was changed so that online bulletin board services such as AmericaOnline have been excluded from the provisions. And restrictions on releasingrecords regarding transactions on the Net were actually tightened. Jerry Berman,deputy policy director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called the newbill a "significant victory" for electronic wanderers. Clinton's expected tosign it Wednesday...
Several electronic bulletin boards available over the Internet are dedicated solely to the distribution of pornography. And the sexual photographs, short films and animation are all free for those willing to wait a few minutes to load the information onto a hard drive...
...University already has the ability to deny students access to various unsavory "newsgroups," which contain the bulletin boards of porn. There are apparently no restrictions at the moment...
...University is against students obtaining pornography from the Internet, officials should just eliminate access to those bulletin boards which offer the offensive material. Or, if the University continues to allow full access to the current 3,104 newsgroups carried by Harvard, then officials should ask the Harvard police to refrain from harassing students for actually taking some of the free information...
...fact, it resembles putting a poster on a kiosk, or a bulletin board. And someone who puts up a controversial or incendiary poster on a kiosk should be prepared to have it quoted in a newspaper...