FWD- New internet fireworks

[Elisabeth Roche]

For the files!

Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com

fwd Elliot Parker's comment-----------------------------
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>>On Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:46:53 0 Michael Kenward said:
>>>inability to police the internet -- yet again the spectre of child
>>>pornography entered the picture. The fact that any inquisitive
>>>youngster only has to go to a library to find equally lethal
>>>information seems to have escaped the BBC's 'reporter' and the thick
>>>arm of the law.
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>>Somebody mentioned (on CARR-L?) that it was faster to find bomb making
>>info in the library than on the Internet.  Think it was in New Zealand.
>>--elliott parker
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>>>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:46:53 +0000
>>>From: Michael Kenward <m.kenward at BBCNC.ORG.UK>
>>>Subject: New internet fireworks
>>>Sender: Computer-assisted Reporting & Research
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>>>A happening that might feed into a story somewhere.
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>>>Yet another internet scare rears its head in the UK. Well, on the
>>>BBC at least. The poor old dear (the internet that is, not the BBC)
>>>is accused of blowing off a youth's hand. It achieved this by
>>>allowing a friend -- note the second hand natrure of the information
>>>flow -- to track down information on homepmade fireworks.
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>>>The BBC duly contacted PC Plod* who said that he is worried about our
>>>inability to police the internet -- yet again the spectre of child
>>>pornography entered the picture. The fact that any inquisitive
>>>youngster only has to go to a library to find equally lethal
>>>information seems to have escaped the BBC's 'reporter' and the thick
>>>arm of the law.
>>>
>>>Michael Kenward
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>>>* A not too flattering but widely used English description of the
>>>fuzz
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