Word: explicitness
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...week after CompuServe blocked access to certain sexually explicit newsgroups, German authorities say that company officials decided on their own which newsgroups to ban. German prosecutors denied claims by CompuServe that the government told the firm which newsgroups to block and reiterated that they never explicitly threatened CompuServe with criminal charges if they did not comply. CompuServe last week had blocked access to some 200 newsgroups on Usenet, a portion of the Internet, touching off a storm of speculation that online services might be held accountable anywhere in the world where material available on the service is considered illegal...
...leading online service jumped into the middle of the debate over electronic free speech on Thursday by blocking subscriber access to a sexually explicit section of the Internet. The move by CompuServe Inc., prompted by threats from a German prosecutor probing child pornography, means that the company's four million subscribers will not be able to access some 200 different "newsgroups" on a portion of the Internet called Usenet. "This shows that if you pull the plug in one country, you pull the plug on all countries," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But anyone who wants to regulate...
That, unfortunately, was not the entire story. Witt's decision to exclude the photos was influenced by a desire to avoid the controversy that might have arisen over the printing of sexually explicit material. "The one thing I do not want to have is the Peninsula and parents calling me and raving at me and saying, 'Why is the sourcebook office publishing pornography?'" Witt said...
...have both shown a selection of Mapplethorpe photos," she says. "They are not the most provocative and explicit of them...
...hospital has informed both physicians that, although they did not violate any explicit hospital policy in doing this work, they exercised poor judgment in allowing their various activities as researchers, editors, authors and experts to overlap in such a way as to create the appearance of a possible conflict of interest," Thibault said...