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The company pointed out that, “CompuServe, Usenet newsgroups are message boards where as an access provider, is not one Internet user posts a responsible for the origina comment and others re Ultimately, anything tion or nature of content on spond minutes, hours or generally available on the the Internet over which it days later. There is no live interaction. There are over * .N et anywhere in the world has no creative or editorial control.” 16,000 U senet new s- can, one way or another, CompuServe “is inves groups, a few of which tigating ways in which we carry erotic stories (such be accessed by any can restrict user access to as alt.sex.stories.gay) or computer connected to the selected newsgroups by erotic photos. 'Net. The Internet was geographical location,” the In a press release, CompuServe said the cen designed—by none other company said. In fact, CompuServe sored newsgroups were than the U.S. Department users who know their way “specifically identified to around the Internet can use CompuServe by the Ger o f Defense any number of Internet tools man authorities as illegal to be sabotage-proof. to traverse cyberspace from under German criminal within CompuServe and law.” view the banned newsgroups elsewhere. Ulti “CompuServe did not select any groups or mately, anything generally available on the ’Net determine the nature of the newsgroups that have anywhere in the world can, one way or another, be been impacted by this action,” the company said. accessed by any computer connected to the ’Net. “German government officials, as part of an in The Internet was designed—by none other than vestigation of illegal material on the Internet, the U.S. Department of Defense—to be sabotage- ordered CompuServe to do what was necessary proof. It can’t even be killed by bombs; it would with respect to specified newsgroups in order to reroute itself around the devastation. comply with German law.” The simplest way to circumvent CompuServe’s That contradicts information German offi censorship is merely to cross-post messages be cials released on Jan. 2, 1996. Manfred Wick, tween banned and nonbanned groups. Traffic for Munich’s senior public prosecutor, said that his alt.homosexual can be carbon-copied to, for ex office did not provide CompuServe with any such ample, soc.motss, which is one of the busiest gay list as part of its investigation of child pornogra newsgroups (“motss” stands for “members of the phy on the Internet. same sex”); it may have survived censorship "We did not make any stipulations. It was the because it contains neither the word “sex” nor the decision of CompuServe alone,” Wick said. word “gay” and because the cybercops may not Zapped groups include dozens beginning with have known what “motss” stands for. “alt.sex” or “alt.binaries.pictures.erotica” as well CompuServe has 4 million subscribers in more as the specific groups alt.recovery .addiction.sexual, than 140 countries. a l t . r e l i g i o n . s e x u a l i t y , alt.support.disabled.sexuality, T — ¿y /Z is te n in y ... " ▼ CALL NOW to schedule your FREE CONSULTATION ! '¡TC. /'■T* ▼ OUT on Broadway NE Broadway, Suite 1-B Portland, OR 9 7 2 3 2 2100 5 0 3 -2 8 7 -8 9 8 9 , x122{Office/24 hr voicemail) cellular 318-1455 ▼fax 503-284-1618 OUT of the area? 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