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Nobody did this more effectively than Robert Thomas, owner of the Amateur Action BBS in Milpitas, California, and a kind of modern-day Marquis de Sade, according to the Carnegie Mellon report. He is currently serving time in an obscenity case that may be headed for the Supreme Court...
...purpose of pornography is to hurt women." Catharine MacKinnon, a professor of law at the University of Michigan, goes further. Women are doubly violated by pornography, she writes in Vindication and Resistance, one of three essays in the forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal that offer differing views on the Carnegie Mellon report. They are violated when it is made and exposed to further violence again and again every time it is consumed. "The question pornography poses in cyberspace," she writes, "is the same one it poses everywhere else: whether anything will be done about...
...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...