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Word: smut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succeeds in censoring the Net, it will be in a position to achieve far more than smut reduction. Any system of control that can stop us from writing dirty words online is a system that can control our collective conversation in other, more important ways. If the nation-states perfect such methods, they may own enough of the mind of mankind to perpetuate themselves far beyond their usefulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THINKING LOCALLY, ACTING GLOBALLY | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...Supreme Court agreed to step into the politically hot debate over media smut. The Justices announced that they will decide whether a federal law that authorizes cable companies to censor indecent programs on leased and public-access channels violates free-speech guarantees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 12-18 | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...City. The books typically cost less than popular secular fiction. Other differences are hard to miss. Sex is not allowed below the eyes. (Fraught gazes carry great weight here, not only conveying love and affection but also standing in for dialogue in dicey situations.) There are no curses or smut, of course, but also no plain-spoken nouns and verbs denoting body parts or functions. Above all, no humor. No jokes, no kidding, no double meanings, no quirks and certainly no irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ALMIGHTY TO THE RESCUE | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

Your report was over-hyped and under-researched. Yes, there is a vast amount of erotica on the Internet, but exactly how much of this perverted smut is accessed by American children? As an experienced cyberjunkie, I know that the probability of an innocent third grader "accidentally'' logging on to a sex link is very minimal. Contrary to every parent's fears, children are not bombarded by explicit images every time they venture online. CLAIRE TELLING Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1995 | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW PARENTS CAN FILTER OUT THE NAUGHTY BITS | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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