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...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...
...polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...
...Online porn certainly pays. Thomas' income last year topped $800,000, enabling the slight, shaggy-haired Californian to indulge in his two extracurricular passions: expensive cars and exotic birds. Subscriptions have more than doubled (to 7,000) since his arrest. Some of the newcomers aren't even bothering to download the dirty pictures; they seem to be offering their $99-per-year subscription fees as donations to the cause. The extra income will come in handy, since the Thomases' legal bills are approaching...
BILL DUVALL WANTS TO FIND PORN ON the Internet. He wants to so badly that he pays Stanford University graduate students to track it down for him. Those bright-eyed bounty hunters of smut are efficient, finding between five and 10 places a day that meet Duvall's single criterion: sexual explicitness. On a typical day last week, his free-lancers brought him the Internet addresses of computers that proffered bootleg images from Playboy, erotic bedtime stories and stag party-style X-rated video snippets. All of them went into a kind of address book that has well in excess...
...built into a program called SurfWatch that, instead of connecting to the electronic hot spots, automatically blocks access to them. SurfWatch of Los Altos, California, is one of a growing number of computer programs designed to answer a fundamental concern of parents, educators and even employers: How can porn be prevented from coming into computers? Fearful that Congress will try to stifle cyberspace with overly broad antismut laws, computer hackers and civil libertarians are promoting such desktop remedies as a way to keep censorship where they think it belongs--in the home...