Word: mellone
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...main focus of discontent was a new study, Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway, purportedly by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, which will be published by the Georgetown Law Journal this week and which was a centerpiece of TIME's story. In the course of the debate, serious questions have been raised regarding the study's methodology, the ethics by which its data were gathered and even its true authorship...
...that they have seen the study, Hoffman and Novak say that Marty Rimm, who wrote it while an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon, grossly exaggerated the extent of pornography on the Internet by conflating findings from private adult-bulletin-board systems that require credit cards for payments (and are off limits to minors) with those from the public networks (which are not). Many of Rimm's statistics, Hoffman and Novak argue, are either misleading or meaningless; for example, the study's now frequently cited claim that 83.5% of the images stored on the Usenet newsgroups are pornographic. Hoffman and Novak maintain...
...legislation. Distributing obscene material across state lines is already illegal under federal law, and child pornography in particular is vigorously prosecuted. Some 40 people in 14 states were arrested two years ago in Operation Longarm for exchanging kiddie porn online. And one of the leading characters in the Carnegie Mellon study--a former Rand McNally executive named Robert Copella, who left book publishing to make his fortune selling pedophilia on the networks--was extradited from Tijuana, and is now awaiting sentencing in a New Jersey jail...
...Elmer-DeWitt's reputation for clear and accurate discussions of complex topics that led an interdisciplinary group of researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University to offer their study of online porn first to Time. "Like most people on the Net," Elmer-DeWitt says, "I knew this stuff was out there. But I hadn't realized how much of it there was--I had never even heard of most of those '-philias' [sexual preferences]. I am a staunch believer in free speech, but some of what people are looking at is very disturbing." The scientists who conducted the study were convinced that...
Four months into his three-year sentence for transmitting obscene images by computer, the man the Carnegie Mellon report calls a modern-day Marquis de Sade hardly looks like a political cause celebre. Robert Thomas spends his day like any other inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri: cleaning the prison kitchen and laundry room and waiting to hear whether his lawyers will get him out on appeal. Thomas' case could well end up in the Supreme Court, where it would set legal precedent for all of cyberspace...