Computing Services will implement this policy on Tuesday, November
8th by removing the following bulletin board trees.
Q. Is this censorship?
A. The criteria for removing a bboard is not whether the material
is offensive, but whether making the material available to minors
violates criminal law.
Q. Who made this decision?
A. It was proposed by Bill Arms, Vice President for Computing Services,
and approved by the Academic Council.
Q. Why now?
A. A Carnegie Mellon study has identified the problem. As soon as the
problem became known, the university had a legal obligation to act.
Q. Why is rec.arts.erotica being removed?
A. The material on rec.arts.erotica is sexually explicit and cannot be
distributed to minors. There is no practical way to restrict minors
from accessing this information, short of removing the bulletin boards.