GERMANS SAY COMPUSERVE SOFTWARE NOT ENOUGH TO BLOCK ON-LINE SMUT.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. CompuServe Inc. introduced software Friday that would allow its customers to block out on-line pornography pornography Depiction of erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement. The word originally signified any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes. , but the Bavarian Justice Ministry said the company was trying to pass the buck Pass the Buck may refer to:
The state justice ministry is investigating Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe for possible criminal charges involving pornography available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the through its access services. CompuServe said it believes the "Parental Controls This article is about computer options. For the television show, see Parental Control (TV series). Parental controls are options, typically included in digital television services, computer and video games, or computer software used to access the Internet, that Tools" software is the best method for its more than 4 million customers to exercise individual control of questionable material on the Internet. Giving each user the ability to block access is the "best solution," CompuServe's German representative, Felix Somm, told reporters. But Bavarian Justice Ministry spokesman spokesman Gerhard Zierl said CompuServe was trying to push criminal responsibility onto third parties, including parents. While filtering software was a step in the right direction, the question about who is responsible for control has not been cleared up, Zierl said. The company said Tuesday that it had reinstated access to all but five of the more than 200 message-posting areas of the Internet that had been cut off in December because of the German investigation of on-line pornography. The action was taken after German prosecutors notified CompuServe that they were investigating distributors of sexually explicit material Sexually explicit material (video, photography, creative writing) presents sexual content without deliberately obscuring or censoring it. The term sexually explicit media is often used as euphemism for pornography. on the Internet. State prosecutors in Bavaria had advised CompuServe they could face charges. |
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