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Re: Censorship, Obligations, and Legal Responsibility

  • From: Jeff Osborne
  • Date: Sun Dec 03 04:18:55 1995 
Since I install internet connections everyday as a Field Service Engineer 
I wounder if I could be held personal responible for hooking up a "pervert"?


On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Alan Hannan wrote:

> 
>   With the publicity surrounding the recently announced coalition
>   and agreement eliminating 'pornography' from certain providers, I
>   am curious as to what our group's thoughts are wrt potential legal
>   expoure to us in the following two areas:
> 
> 	A| Network Connectivity Providing
>     and B| Usenet Network News Providing.
> 
>   I have arguments in my head both ways on the question:
> 
>   "Is the NSP|ISP responsible for content of their Pipes|NNTP feed?"
> 
>   I would be curious to hear what the concensus (as if there might
>   be one) is.
> 
>   -alan
>