child pornography

Are "Sext" Messages a Teenage Felony or Folly?

Nathan Koppel and Ashby Jones, Reporters, the Wall Street Journal in News on August 25, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

State lawmakers around the U.S. are struggling to decide if teenage “sexting”—the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive photos by cellphone—is a serious crime, or juvenile folly run amok. About 20 states have enacted or proposed measures that deal with teenage sexters.

A Town, Its Teens, and a Practice Called ‘Sexting’

Ashby Jones, Lead Writer and Editor, Law Blog, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 21, 2009 at 9:21 am PT

Let’s talk about sexting. As we’ve mentioned before, sexting is the practice of sending nude or semi-nude pictures of ones self or others via cell phone. It’s one thing, we suppose, if adults do it, but what’s got parents, students, school administrators, the ACLU and district attorneys riled up is that minors are getting into the act as well.

French Add Censuré to "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"

John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2008 at 2:36 pm PT

The Internet-filtering agreements New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo inked with Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S) and Time Warner Cable (TWX) today, while certainly groundbreaking, pale a bit in comparison to the ones announced in France.

French Add Censuré to “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”

John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2008 at 2:36 pm PT

Cuomo: Just Say No to Usenet

John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2008 at 11:39 am PT

John Gilmore once famously claimed that “the Internet interprets censorship as failure and routes around it.” If he’s right, there’s no reason to worry that an agreement by three of the nation’s largest Internet-service providers to block access to newsgroups and Web sites that traffic in child pornography might have other frightening consequences. If not, well …

Announcing Net Nanny, Andrew Cuomo Edition TM

John Paczkowski in News on June 10, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

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