Rupert dished up to his readership gossip and smut, plus baseball, football and soccer events.

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But Jillette the magician dismissed the idea that computers permit anonymity which encourages harmful smut.

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The sheer scale of the task facing Ford could also limit the effectiveness of its plans to stamp out smut, sexist and racist material.

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The fact that many of these work computers could be laptops taken home in the evening and during the weekend could make the problem of spotting smut much more difficult.

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The Supreme Court took a similarly stern view of Congress' ham-handed effort to curb smut on the Net, now used by 210 million people in the U.S. The court in 1997 ruled 9--0 to strike down the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996.

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