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...years universities have turned a blind eye to the Internet traffic passing through their computer systems -- including the sexually explicit words and pictures in such USENET newsgroups as alt.sex and rec.arts.erotica. Those days may be over, at least at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to a new policy scheduled to go into effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill advised. "The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd...
Increased participation of citizens in the political process will be one of the great achievements of the information revolution. Just as Usenet newsgroups have nurtured wildly varied political discussion on a small scale over the 'net, interactive television will allow for concerned citizens to make their voices heard through mass media--and hopefully will prompt those from the rest of society to become concerned in the first place...
...Foley-ate," a Perot-like grass-roots campaign, is seeding the Internet's popular usenet newsgroups with electronic press releases urging Spokane-area voters to make Tom Foley the first sitting Speaker of the House to be dumped in 134 years. The group claims to have raised at least $10,000 since it began online appeals two weeks ago. Will the beleaguered Foley campaign hit back on the Net? "We're not really up on it at this point," said an aide...
...article "Internet Pornography on Rise; University Lacking Policy" (news story, Sep. 29, 1994) quotes me as saying "about 25 percent of all information on the Internet is pornography-related." What I said was, "About 25 percent of all information on USENET, more commonly known as newsgroups, is pornography-related...
Kyungmann Kim, a statistcian at the School ofPublic Health, says he reads news items ofinterest via Usenet and does some research usingvarious information servers available over thenetwork...