European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On line porn the rest of the Story Joseph l. Mccray time Magazine ran a cover Story july 3 wit the blaring headline on a screen near you  followed two key events. The first was a debate in the Senate Over an amendment to the telecommunications Reform Bill called the communications decency act the Exon Coates amendment introduced by sen. J James Exon d-neb., and since passed in the Senate by a vote of 8416. The second was a nigh the broadcast taped june 23, with Ted Koppel talking to Mike Godwin on line Legal counsel of the electronic Freedom foundation and Richard Reed of the Christian coalition aired the next week on an. I Cari summarize for you the entire Senate debate leading to the vote. I was Able to acquire Trie transcripts from the congressional record via the internet. Exon was the main speaker with sen. Patrick a Leahy d-vt., taking a dissenting Posu Ion. Exon fanned the flames of righteousness effectively by be ginning with a prayer read into the record. He then proceeded to Wax eloquently about the images of vile debased pornography that he had in a closed folder at his Senate seat inviting All the senators to come Sec his dirty picture folder and quote a partic ular research study from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University which was later published in the Georgetown Law  amendment passed. The Christian coalition s Reed goes on National television quoting some of the Samp statistics from the Carnegie Mellon study and includes a reference to but not by name Robert Thomas currently under indictment who runs Amateur action Bulle tin Board service bus which contains explicit inv Ages that one must say arc xxx rated. J. The images posted to this bus were acquired v strictly from Ordinary folks who had Kinky hobbies opening laugh Reisinger Zagreb Croatia Young Man if you continue to be so industrious there s a great future for you in my  express yourself Send in your column plus a photo of yourself to be our guest sunday Magazine the stars and stripes Apo a 09211 or Postrach 11 1437, d-64278 Darmstadt Germany. If mailing disk save text in Asci and include printout. Columns Are edited for clarity and length. Photography being one of them sex the other. God win attempted to show that Many on line services featuring internet Access Are offering parental controls Over much of the Content and should be Al Lowed without Federal intervention to meet the de sires and needs of its customers. Reed was uns Waying in his Hue and cry for Federal Laws to be enacted immediately to protect our children from the pornographers lying in wait on the internet. So where is the rest of the Story it starts with Martin Rimm an undergraduate electrical engineering major and the author of the Carnegie Mellon study funded in part by Federal Grants. The study uses a beginning figure of 917,410 pictures stories and clips. In this Case though Only the descriptive title was examined and that by discriminating software written by Brian Reid a . In computer science for particular keywords which provides accounting for Access to Only a particular newsgroup while not accounting for any Down loads or even reads to the computer Monitor. After elimination of Many items by the software 292,114 remained. The wording of the study docs not make this Clear. Somewhere in this examination a figure was arrived at that 83.5 percent of All images on the internet arc pornographic. The internet study comes from a seven Day time v slice during january 1994 of postings to 17 of 32 use net groups which typically carry image files. What has been missed is that further in the study by Rimm s own figures transmission or reception of adult images or text actually constitutes 0 5 percent of All traffic on the internet a International entity not strictly limited to the boundaries of the United states. Where arc the alarming porn images lurking put there for children where As Reed said on nigh Tinc arc those evil pornographers lurking in cyberspace waiting for your child to log on so they can bombard them with dirty pictures or notes maybe on images Down loaded from private Bess that Cater to adult Media which Are not on the internet. For the uninitiated a bus requires dealing a pc civic phone number via Modem. Few if any adult bus operations have internet Access. One must Reg _ ister As an adult provide identification As an adult and pay a fee before being allowed Access. " this is As far As computer communications sys tems go As restricted As possible. Most system operators of adult Bess Are extremely wary of and make every attempt to prevent minors or Law enforcement agents from accessing their materials. The previously mentioned Richard Thomas was literally entrapped by Law enforcement personnel by having de coys dial in from areas of the country where the Community standards arc so rigid As to be Victori an and then bring charges in that venue. This is your crime fighting tax Money at work. The actual flaws in the methodology and ethics of the study itself Are seriously addressed by professor Jim Thomas of the department of sociology at Northern Illinois University As Well As Donna Hoffman an associate professor of management at the Owen school at Vanderbilt and one of the most respected researchers on net Access issues. Thomas in computer underground digest writes on the ethics of the Carnegie Mellon study. He finds that Rimm s methods were in violation of the standards of ethical research set Forth by Federal guidelines and in. Eluded deception and outright lies. ,. Reid who is director of the network systems Laboratory of digital equipment co., who received his . In computer science from Carnegie Mellon University says in computer underground digest 7.59, in summary i do not consider Rimm s analysis to have enough technical rigor to be worthy of publication in scholarly  t and to sensationalize the release of the study Rimm entered into secrecy agreements with time Magazine and writer Phillip Elmer Dewitt the Georgetown Law review and nigh the. Carnegie Mellon is currently under no Legal obligation to comply with formal study guidelines but the University should disavow a patently flawed piece of work by a person obviously ensuring the facts met his premise using whatever methods were available to get it. One will never Sec Exon on the floor of the Senate saying on the record i was duped by a shoddy Survey and a hidden Agenda and you will probably never see the same from time Magazine. The rounds have been fired and fires arc burning with righteous  those of you who arc v on line you  truth. For those of you who. Worry about your children being exposed to filth on the int Carnet relax and get computer literate. And think about this the next time you cry out for the. Government to regulate something the danger to c.hil-. Drin is in our drinking water in our air in our food and in Many other areas that our esteemed representatives arc trying to deregulate in the name of profits. Staff sgt. Joseph l. Mccray is with the he co 16th Engineer in. His email address is Mccray at . Contents sitting in limbo. 4-8cold War deserters try to come to Tenns with their Deci Sion to head East. In tune .�.9it s Jennny time. Of. This week s films. 10-11chuck Vinch on or. Jekyll and is. Hyde.". Military circuit listings. % television listings  12-15local, Cable and satellite schedules. Home entertainment. 13 a less expensive Schindler s  books. 17 Nancy Drew Heads for College. Odds & ends 18 Erma Bombeck charges ahead. Sidelights 20 the president rims for office. Voices of. 21 Linda Ellerbee considers  \ words & wit ,. 22 Tony Konheiser takes a trip. On Parade. 23 does Julia Roberts really care ? last laugh. 24 Dave Dany on the Call of nature. Sunday is a weekly supplement of the stars and stripes editor Mark Najarian cover Story design Alice verb Eric production Bernard Jensen Lisa Williams editorial assistance Louis d. Pierce Page 2 sunday september 10, 1995