Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007393, Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:06:35 -0800

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Fw: Lolita and Pete Townshend
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EDNOTE. I'm sure the nascent Office of Homeland Security will find the
frequency of occurrence of "Lolita" in NABOKV-L exchanges to be suspicious.

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From: "David Morris" <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
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> http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/
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> "[The above provides a link to] an article about kiddie porn that Pete
> Townshend posted to his website last August, then removed for legal
reasons; it
> is now being circulated via e-mail by the critic/reporter Dave Marsh. For
> whatever it's worth, the piece fits the musician's version of events."
>
> An exerpt from the article:
> "I am also aware - as are most people today I think - of how easy it is to
> trigger the attention of an internet service provider (ISP) when certain
> 'buzz-words' are used in a search. These are, in effect, words - or
> combinations of words - that alert attention at the ISP. [...]
> The Guardian newspaper revealed that www.uksearchterms.com listed 'lolita'
high
> on the list of the most searched words in the UK ('sex' is often No.1). It
> seemed to me that there was some hypocrisy going on. Who were all these
people
> typing 'lolita' into their browsers? They were surely not all paedophiles.
They
> may have been vigilantes. I'm fairly certain that in most cases they were
> simply curious of what they might find. The terrible part is that what
they
> found on the internet will almost have certainly found them by return."
>
>
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