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[1] Re: TIME on Net Censorship                   -( )--[1]
Date: Fri Dec 29 15:50:36 PST 1995
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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It should be noted that nearly every aspect of the Rimm "study"
seems to be based on deception or misrepresentation of some sort.

Furthermore, it is clear that Rimm worked with representatives
of pro-censorship groups in writing and placing his study.

Time has done nothing to expose Rimm. It has done nothing to expose the
groups that worked with him, and that used his study tactically to advance
their agenda.

Note that even though the Rimm study and Rimm himself have been (mostly)
exposed, the pro-censorship agenda had enough momentum that the groups in
question could cut Rimm loose.

I have rarely seen so adept a lobbying strategy as that used by the
Christian Coalition and allied groups in shaping the telecom legislation.
And the whole story of this has yet to be told to the American public.


--Mike

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Mike Godwin, (510) 548-3290 |     "Hold to the now, the here, 
mnemonic@well.com           |      through which all future
Electronic Frontier         |      plunges to the past."
Foundation                  |             --James Joyce





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[1] Re: TIME on Net Censorship
Date: Mon Jan 01 09:34:38 PST 1996
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N.B. It's worth comparing Time's treatment of the Rimm study with
Newsweek's. Steven Levy dealt with Rimm in a single paragraph in
Newsweek's article on cyberporn (published the same week as Time's).
Here's the paragraph:

' And this week the Georgetown Law Journal will release a survey headed by
Marty Rimm, a 30-year-old researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. In his
paper, ``Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway,'' Rimm
concentrated mostly on adults-only bulletin boards (the equivalent of
X-rated bookshops). He provides solid evidence that there's loads of
hard-core stuff in cyberspace. Rimm wrote a computer program to analyze
descriptions of 917,410 dirty pictures (he examined about 10,000 actual
images, to check the realiability of the descriptions). His conclusion:
``I think there's almost no question that we're seeing an unprecedented
availability and demand of material like sadomasochism, bestiality,
vaginal and rectal fisting, eroticized urination . . . and pedophilia." '

In a single paragraph, Levy tells readers more about what Rimm's
(purported) methodology was than Time tells us in its entire article.


--Mike



-- 
Mike Godwin, (510) 548-3290 |     "Hold to the now, the here, 
mnemonic@well.com           |      through which all future
Electronic Frontier         |      plunges to the past."
Foundation                  |             --James Joyce