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Dirty talk isn't cheap. "Dial-a-porn" telephone services have become a huge $2.4 billion industry. After listening to complaints about easy access to sexually explicit telephone messages, the Federal Communications Commission last week fined two California-based companies $600,000 each for transmitting obscene material across state lines. Like many other dial-a-porn lines, the companies did nothing to keep minors from using the services...
Earlier, the House of Representatives sent an even sharper message by approving an outright ban on dial-a-porn lines in an amendment to the $8.3 billion education bill. The measure would simply outlaw any "obscene" telephone services. Although some legislators expressed doubt about the bill's constitutionality, California Republican William Dannemeyer, a co-sponsor of the amendment, declared, "People want it banned. Let the Supreme Court rule on constitutionality...
...cases at least, a critical view of the industry. Traveler, the best new entry, has produced some trenchant investigative pieces on the qualifications of the lordly Michelin guides and the destruction of the Tongass rain forest in Alaska. But in the new sensibility, Traveler included, the spirit of travel porn persists with such seductive stories as "How to Shop Like a Princess," "Ballooning over Newport" and "The Almost-Too-Good Life at La Costa...
...crowd comes partly to hear Downey's right-wing rantings but mainly to cheer on his bullying tactics, as in this typical recent colloquy. Fringe Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche: "Why don't you shut up?" Downey: "Why don't you shut up? All you're doing is spewing garbage." Porn Star Seka walked off one program in disgust; Downey threw Journalist Rich Taylor off another show during an argument about alleged defects in the Audi 5000. Two weeks ago, Downey was arraigned on an assault charge filed by Gay Activist Andrew Humm, a guest who claims Downey slapped him after...
...from censoring messages carried over their wires, and many courts have agreed, striking down various efforts to restrict the services. But there have been two rulings that give hope to the antiporn forces. In Arizona and Florida cases, federal appeals courts drew a distinction: government action against dial-a-porn might violate the First Amendment, they said, but as a matter of private policy, phone companies could turn away purveyors of such services...