EFF "Censorship - Martin Rimm/CMU/Time & Related Anti-Porn Hysteria" Archive

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elmer-dewitt_time.interview

Philip Elmer-Dewitt of _Time_ is interviewed by Gary Brickman of _Hotwired_, giving his perspective on the Rimm/Time scandal and its aftermath.

hoffman_novak_to_rimm.response

Hoffman & Novak's response to Rimm's response to their critique of the Time "CyberPorn" article and its connection to Rimm's study.

how_time_failed_meeks.article

"How Time Failed", _HotWired_ "Muckraker" column by Brock Meeks. Provides a detailed and accurate timeline of the events leading up to and following the Rimm study/Time article scandal.

journoporn_godwin.article

An article by EFF's Mike Godwin that originally appeared in Wired on the links between the flawed data of the CMU Cyberporn study and the Time cover story.

rimm_hoffman_novak.critique

"A Detailed Analysis of the Conceptual, Logical, and Methodological Flaws in the Article: 'Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway'", July 2, 1995 (version 1.01), by Donna L. Hoffman & Thomas P. Novak, Associate Professors of Management, and Co-Directors of Project 2000, Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University.

rimm_rright_links_godwin.article

Article by Mike Godwin, "Who's Using Who? Martin Rimm and the Antiporn Activists", Oct. 1995, exposing links between Martin Rimm and religious right pro-censorship organizations and activisits, along with evidence that such people actually wrote part of the study.

rimm_to_hoffman_novak.response

Marty Rimm's often ludicrous response to the Hoffman & Novak critique of Time's article and its dependency on Rimm's study. Rimm studiously avoids responding to H&N's original & more detailed critique of the study itself.

thimbleby_global_village_problems_95.paper

Middlesex U. (UK) Professor Harold Thimbleby's paper, "Problems in the Global Village", from "Discovery & Invention: The British Assoc. Annual Festival of Science". Opines about online pornography at some length, and cites the Rimm/CMU "study" (in all fairness, it also cites criticism of that study.) UK observers report that immediately after the presentation of this paper, the UK media had a field day hyping the evils of e-porn and other such nonsense. This is an annotated version saved from the author's WWW site. The HTML version, with active links, is also available, at http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/village.html.

time_cyberporn.articles

the controversial _Time_ article (with two sidebar stories at the end) that cites Martin Rimm's "study" as "exhaustive" when in fact it is a fraud.

time_hoffman_novak.critique

"A Detailed Critique of the TIME Article: 'On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn' (DeWitt, 7/3/95)", July 1, 1995 (version 1.01), by Donna L. Hoffman & Thomas P. Novak, Associate Professors of Management and Co-Directors of Project 2000, Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University.

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JournoPorn: Dissection of the Time Scandal

A exclusive on the Rimm "cyberporn" report and the misleading Time magazine article based on it. Features articles by Mike Godwin, D. Hoffman and T. Novak, Brock Meeks and others.

The Rimm study itself

"Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Descriptions, Short Stories and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories", by Marty Rimm. This is an HTML edition with active links between text and footnotes.

Time editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt's Home Page

The in-some-ways-similar Mehta/Queens U. study, that some claim Rimm all but plagiarized from

Declan McCullagh's WWW pages on the Rimm "study"