Word: explicitness
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What the Carnegie Mellon researchers discovered was: THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT OF PORN ONLINE. In an 18-month study, the team surveyed 917,410 sexually explicit pictures, descriptions, short stories and film clips. On those Usenet newsgroups where digitized images are stored, 83.5% of the pictures were pornographic...
...federal appeals court ruled that TV stations can no longer air steamy movies or racy talk shows as early as 8 p.m. Instead, sexually suggestive or explicit shows will have to wait till 10 p.m., when the kids presumably are asleep. "It is fanciful to believe that the vast majority of parents who wish to shield their children from indecent material can effectively do so without meaningful restrictions on the airing of broadcast indecency," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said. Viewers probably won't notice any difference. The ruling doesn't apply to the cable...
...Court let stand without comment a 1990 law that requires pornographic filmmakers and photographers to provide proof that their subjects are at least 18 years old. The law, part of the Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act, requires producers of material with "actual sexually explicit conduct" to keep and make available records of the ages of anyone shown. The American Library Association and others had challenged the law, saying it violated free speech rights by requiring such records even for subjects who were obviously much older than...
...online servicesnow have a powerful ally in House Speaker Newt Gingrich.House members are already planning a far less restrictive approach: Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are pushing a plan to give parents, not the government, the power to block children's access to sexually explicit or obscene materials.TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWittsays the bill also would removeliability for online providersthat try to screen out obscene material themselves. A legal ruling against Prodigy last month held the service accountable for users' electronic postings precisely because the company made aggressive policing efforts...
...Senate bill "very badly thought out and not very productive." House members are already planning a far less restrictive approach: Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are pushing their own plan to give parents, not government, power to block children's access to sexually explicit or obscene materials...