NOTE: This message was originally addressed to ALL and was forwarded to you by JIM HENDERSON -------------------- Just thought some of you may be interested in this: ======================================================================== * Forwarded by DALE PREVETTE (1:3663/105) * Area : WI_SYSOP (WishNet Sysops Echo) * From : Bob Kleamovich, 19:1401/0 (Tuesday February 08 1994 17:16) * To : All * Subj : Adult GIF files ======================================================================== Here is some interesting news concerning adult oriented GIF, GL, DL,... files. Please read this if you have any of these type of pictures out o your system. Here's the text of an information release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) has requested that the FBI become more involved in the fight to stop adult images from being distributed on electronic bulletin boards and the Internet. Senator Helms stated on the Senate floor that additional funding has been allocated to give the FBI and other law enforcement agencies a greater ability to police computer bulletin boards and the Internet, two of the largest sources of illegal pornography. Mike Godwin, working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued a warning to bulletin board systems in all 50 states that federal prosecutions will more than quintuple in 1994, with as many as 100 investigations leading to arrests likely. The EFF has issued a warning to SysOps that the following files which depict any of the following acts are illegal in all 50 states and can subject the SysOp to prosecution, regardless of whether the SysOp knows about the files or not: - Depiction of actual sex acts in progress - Depiction of an erect penis The EFF does state that the law does not apply to sexually-oriented messages or stories, just to pictures. -+- Blue Wave/TG v2.12 [NR] + Origin: {Cerebral Babylon} WishNet/RI 401.435.3576 (19:1401/0. ======================================================================== --- * SLMR 2.1a * Bored ? press ALT+0 or CTRL+2 from SLMR or OLX. þ WILDNET(tm): Mayberry BBS - Mt. Airy, NC, 919-789-8183 --- QScan v1.061b * Origin: ABBSA-*AC*- Night Wind, Boothwyn Pa, (610)497-3912 (117:1004/0) 0 0Via: 1503016*1 2*1 1616001*1 6160*1 1704000*1 1219001*1