FC: Utah gets full-time anti-porn, anti-Net-smut "czarina"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> From: "William K. Walker" <wkwalker () nvdi com>
> To: <declan () well com>
> Subject: Utah Gets a Full-Time Anti-Porn Warrior
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:09:24 -0500
>
> Declan,
>
> On the off chance that you haven't seen it yet, I thought you might be
> interested in this article from today's Salt Lake Tribune. Note that the
> Internet is part of the new Porn Czarina's purview.
>
> Bill Walker,
> NVDi
>
> http://www.sltrib.com/01272001/utah/66234.htm
>
> It's Official: Utah Gets a Full-Time Anti-Porn Warrior
> BY GREG BURTON SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
>
> Whatever you call her -- "porn czarina" or the official "obscenity and
> pornography complaints ombudsman" -- Paula Houston is about to enter an
> uncharted legal landscape.
>     Houston, a Brigham Young University graduate and former West Valley City
> prosecutor, is Utah's (some say the world's) first full-time porn stopper.
>     "This is an historic day," Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said
> Friday before introducing Houston to reporters. "There's absolutely no
> redeeming value to pornography . . . and I, for one, will not allow
> pornographers to hide behind the First Amendment."
>     Houston, whose job was created by the 2000 Legislature, will investigate
> and prosecute those who violate the state's obscenity laws.
>     It is, perhaps, an unenviable task, and no laughing matter, Shurtleff
> said.
>     Utah's new chief lawyer used the occasion to fire the first salvos in
> what could become a moral war against the Internet, television, books,
> movies, drawings and whatever else Houston, or any Utah community that asks
> for her help, deems obscene. ...




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