02Apr27c Tom's paper (Mark)

 

Tom writes,

>  I would appreciate any feedback from members, particularly as regards [to] how best it can now be exploited by being presented to a wider audience. <

 

Your paper is important and should have as wide a distribution as possible. Some suggestions:

 

Civil liberties fora and news (discussion) groups with a link back to your paper at Ipce. I am not sure how to go about finding these other than via Google. If you look for them, could you let me know what methods you use? In the U.S., a well known one is Declan McCullagh's Politechbot

Civil liberties Websites—by name if possible, to the individuals who follow pornography law; one is Child Porn & the Internet, a U.K. cyber-rights site; check out the links at Tsang's Alternative Research

Authors of the amici briefs in Ashcroft; they're listed on the docket

Lawyers who write about child porn law — Amy Adler to start; find others via Nexis/Lexis

Non-lawyer academics who have written about child porn, e.g., Anne Higonnet, "Conclusions Based on Observation", The Yale Journal of Criticism 9.1 (1996) 1-18; find them via an academic periodicals index, Gale is one but there is a better one which I can't remember now

Boy-Links' Scholarly Resources and other pro-BL/GL sites, e.g., Butterfly Kisses

 

You may want to go beyond the core civil liberties / legal audience. One idea you may wish to consider is writing a brief article for people active in progressive issues. It could be from a civil liberties perspective and might take the tack of "the U.K. is set to adopt the bankrupt and wasteful [along the lines of the case laid out in Jenkins' Moral Panic] model recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court." Or some such.

 Key progressive publications in the States include Z Magazine, In These Times and Dissent. All three have Web sites but ZNet seems to be the most active, a large and up-to-the-minute smorgasbord of info on radical causes. One way onto ZNet is to write a Z Commentary. These are daily essays of about 1,000 – 2,000 words on progressive topics for ZNet sustainers (who have access to a subset of the site which provides original content beyond that in Z Magazine). The commentary focus seems to be on international aggressions and economics, though social issues are also covered. Key progressives behind ZNet who would see a commentary include Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Barbara Ehrenreich and Howard Zinn, all of whom are active on a variety of fronts, though a great many people are sustainers (participants in ZNet discussion groups are from all over the world).

 Once you have it as a brief article you could fairly easily adapt it for any type of civil liberties publication/site. If it runs as a ZNet commentary, I'll do post about it in the discussion groups.

 Finally – this is off topic, sorry – but I've translated some articles from Spanish for the Venezuela Watch page of ZNet's public site. I am working on another one now by Gabriel García Márquez.

 —Mark