Topic 1067 [media]:  Martin Rimm and the Cyberporn Scare
#752 of 1020: Avant Garde A Clue (mnemonic)      Sun Sep 17 '95 (16:37)    17 lines

 
 Talked to Anne Branscomb. She says Marty contacted her by phone around
 the Christmas season and solicited her comment for the Georgetown Law
 Journal. Marty and Branscomb had several phone conversations last spring,
 in many of which she solicited his help in downloading images (she found
 it difficult to do it herself). She says she did not actually review
 the methodology of the Rimm article -- "I'm not a social scientist, I'm not
 a statistician" -- but assumed it was valid since Marty's adviser was
 Sirbu, whom she had known when he was at MIT and they had taken a seminar
 together from Ithiel de Sola Pool.
 
 At one point in the spring, she says, Marty contacted her by phone and
 casually mentioned that it would be nice if her comment included something
 complimentary about the study.
 
 She says she thinks her comment already mentioned the study, so she is
 doubtful whether she changed anything pursuant to Marty's request.