Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generation believes we can do almost anything. My characters are free: no social mores keep them in check." View Askew's Website invites fans for a chat: "Feel the power of communication, as you can actually interact with the losers who hit it big with their movies of smut and conscience...
Tired of coming across homepage after homepage of the same old advertising banners and those tacky, rotating "e-mail-me" icons? Sick of Internet smut? Want to know where the real goods are on the World Wide...
...parents, on the other hand, moan about it and fondle it from one moment to the next. Some beg us to embrace the Internet as a paradigm of civic virtue, while others see it as a conduit of sin, the high road to pornography and all manners of smut...
...often overlooked: Girlie mags. In an attempt to eliminate this scourge, the government last May passed a measure called the Military Honor and Decency Act of 1996. But a federal judge, ruling the measure violates rights under the First Amendment, today wiped the act from the books, effectively permitting smut to remain on the stands in military stores. As Judge Shira A. Scheindlin put it: "Society is better served by protecting our cherished right to free speech, even at the cost of tolerating speech that is outrageous, offensive and demeaning." Passed as an addition to the 1996 defense budget bill...
Someday, of course, people of Jeffrey's generation will be the parents in control, and they will be casually hooking up V chips to CD-ROMs and the Internet so that their children can play nonviolent, smut-free, four-dimensional Parcheesi with friends in Bangalore while listening to symphonic background music. Until then, though, any attempt at a techno-fix like the V chip will put the inmates in charge of the asylum...