CDA Trial Transcript
3/21/96 (afternoon)
JUDGE SLOVITER: It's now time to say good afternoon.
ALL: Good afternoon.
MR. ENNIS: Judge Sloviter, my name is Bruce Ennis. I'm
counsel for the ALA plaintiffs. We wish to call as our second
witness Ann Duvall, the president of Surfwatch Software,
Incorporated.
Before I do that, may I take care of one brief housekeeping
matter? I'd like to move into evidence the plaintiffs' exhibits,
which was filed a few days ago, and to which the Government did
not object. That would be the ACLU Exhibit Numbers 1 through 67,
and the ALA plaintiff Exhibit Numbers 200 through 289.
MR. COPPOLINO: No objection.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay.
MR. ENNIS: We call --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Accepted.
MR. ENNIS: Thank you, your Honor.
(Whereupon ACLU Exhibit Numbers 1 through 67 and ALA
Plaintiff Exhibit Numbers 200 through 289 were admitted into
evidence.)
JUDGE SLOVITER: We call Ann Duvall.
THE CLERK: Would you please state and spell your name for
the record?
THE WITNESS: Ann Duvall, A-N-N, D-U-V-A-L-L.
ANN DUVALL, Sworn.
THE CLERK: Thank you. Please be seated.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Does the Government concede the expertise of
this witness?
JUDGE DALZELL: In the area she's proffered for.
MR. COPPOLINO: We conceded only in the area that she is
proffered for. I do expect to have some questions with respect to
technical issues that would clarify the matter.
JUDGE DALZELL: Sure.
MR. COPPOLINO: Thank you.
MR. ENNIS: Your Honors, at this point, I would move the
admission into evidence of the declaration of Ann Duvall,
previously filed. It was sworn to on March 19th of this year, as
her trial testimony.
MR. COPPOLINO: No objection.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. It is accepted.
(Whereupon the declaration of Ann Duvall was admitted into
evidence.)
JUDGE SLOVITER: Are we on mike?
JUDGE DALZELL: Yeah. You can hear us, can't you?
ALL: Yes.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Well, we can be heard anyway.
MR. ENNIS: As the Court is aware, Mrs. Duvall is going to
demonstrate for the Court some uses of the computer in an
interactive computer system.
Briefly, she is going to demonstrate how you can access the
Internet and move around in the Internet. And then she is going
to demonstrate how parents can use software technology, which
would make it possible for parents to view whatever they want on
the Internet, and yet for parents to block or filter material they
consider inappropriate for their children.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. That's at least a thesis on which
she's going to testify.
MR. ENNIS: That's the objective, your Honor.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yeah.
MR. ENNIS: She -- the testimony will take approximately 30
minutes, and I wish to emphasize that because the point of the
demonstration is to explain how this works, if there are any
questions from the Court at any point, please feel free to
interrupt and ask.
JUDGE SLOVITER: I think the Court is not bashful.
(Laughter)
MR. ENNIS: Thank you, your Honor.
JUDGE DALZELL: As you may have detected. Did you want the
lights down?
MR. ENNIS: Yes. Your screens would flicker less if we turn
off just the fluorescent lights.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. I think that's about to take place.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Now, does counsel have -- oh, you have it up
there?
MR. ENNIS: Yes. I don't have a monitor, and I might need at
some point, to approach the witness, if that would be acceptable.
JUDGE SLOVITER: If it's all right with the witness, it's all
right with the Court.
THE WITNESS: Good afternoon, your Honors.
JUDGE DALZELL: Good afternoon.
THE WITNESS: I'd like to take and spend some time with you
exploring a little of the Internet, and putting in front of you,
something you can see that will perhaps explain some of the very
technical explanations that you saw this morning.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Uh-huh.
THE WITNESS: I'm going to start at a very basic level, so if
I'm repeating things that you already know, please forgive me.
But please feel free to ask questions, if you have any, along the
way.
Before a parent can connect to the Internet, they have to
purchase a computer. That's the first place that a parent makes a
decision about whether or not they want their child to see things
on the Internet.
The computer I'm going to be using this afternoon is a
MacIntosh computer. It actually -- the actual computer is sitting
right there on the floor, inside the little box there. And -- I
can point to that? Right. It's inside the little box.
That is actually a portable computer. And when I leave this
computer, I can actually remove the whole computer from this set
up, so that the child wouldn't have any access at all to the
computer, if that's how I chose to set up my home with this
portable computer. So it's another way I can make a decision to
choose what my child sees on the Internet.
Many computers have keys and locks that you actually can use
to lock up a computer. Before you can actually turn it on, you
have to have a key to open it. And so that's another parental
control that you can use when you're using a computer.
Now I'm going to go ahead and turn my computer on by pushing
one button over here, and as it's starting to get warmed up,
another means that I have used often is to have a private password
when my computer starts up. It's a password that I know, that I
have to type in, in order for this computer to begin and to
actually boot up as they call it.
So as we're waiting for this to start, you will see that a
screen will come on, and I want to make sure you all have a blank
white screen right now?
JUDGE DALZELL: Yes. Yes.
THE WITNESS: Okay. It says, Welcome to MacIntosh? Okay.
JUDGE DALZELL: At least two members of the panel are
MacIntosh friendly.
THE WITNESS: Oh. Good.
JUDGE SLOVITER: I can't say I'm friendly. I'm there.
THE WITNESS: So as this computer begins to start, there will
come a point where it will stop, actually starting, and ask me for
my private password, which I need to type in from my keyboard,
which is right now. So I type that word in, and then it will
continue to load.
Once the parents -- just because a parent has bought a
computer, doesn't necessarily mean they're connected to the
Internet automatically. You can buy computers to do word
processing, or whatever. But in order to connect to the Internet,
you must purchase additional hardware and software. You probably
have to buy a modem that will allow you actually to make that
connection to the Internet.
Once you've bought the modem, then you need to find your ISP,
which Mr. Bradner mentioned this morning, your Internet Service
Provider, which is the person who will provide that connectivity
to the Internet.
Most homes use modems. I happen to be connected here, this
afternoon, with a special line that was brought into the
courthouse, called a T1 line. That's a kind of a line that a lot
of businesses tend to use today. But in most homes, they use
modems and what's called a dial up connection.
Once I've established my modem and my connection, I still
need some software that will allow me to view the Internet and to
connect to the Internet, software that Mr. Bradner mentioned this
morning.
I'm going to take a little tour right now of the Worldwide
Web, which is one section of the Internet. It's the most popular,
fastest growing, the one I think that children use the most often
today.
In order to see the Worldwide Web, I need what's called a
browser, which we talked about quite a bit this morning. I have a
choice of many different browsers, one of which is Spy Glass
Mosaic, the other which is Netscape browser.
I'm going to use Netscape this morning. And the way I start
it up is I move my mouse to the center of the application. By
double clicking, it will
JUDGE SLOVITER: Could I stop you here? Do you have to buy
these browsers, or does one ordinarily have to buy these browsers
in order to install them?
THE WITNESS: Many times when you actually go to an Internet
Service Provider, they will, as part of the package, provide you
with a browser. But most of the browsers have been available,
free. What happens in the future is somewhat difficult to
determine. But now, you can get most of them free over the
Internet.
So I am now connected to the Internet. And when you first
start up a browser, you go to what's called your home page. And
each person can have their own individual home page. My home page
happens to the home page for the company Surfwatch, which gives
you information about our company. This piece of information is
actually located on a computer in California, on what's called our
server. But I actually can view this information here, in
Philadelphia.
At the same time I'm viewing this information, thousands of
people could also be viewing the same piece of information on
their computers in their homes or their offices.
The -- this is the Netscape area that we're looking at. And
what you're looking at up top on this bar -- does my mouse move
back and forth on your screen also?
JUDGE DALZELL: Yes, it does.
THE WITNESS: Okay.
JUDGE DALZELL: Very clear.
THE WITNESS: Are some commands that I perhaps may be using
later on. But this bar down below is really a fun place to go to.
It always gives you access to What's New and What's Cool,
according to Netscape on the Internet. So let's go -- the way I
can go there is just by clicking in the what's cool area, and
depending on how quickly that connection will take us there, we
will go to the area that's called What's Cool.
On the What's Cool page, and I'm going to move the page up a
little bit, it tells me it was last updated on March 16th, so it's
something that's constantly changing. If I move up a little bit,
you can see all sorts of short pieces of description of various
places that might have information I was interested in.
And if you notice that the cursor, which is now an arrow,
when I bring it over one of the blue lettered items, it turns into
a little hand. That means that I can click on that and go to
another location and get that information. And I will do that in a
minute and show you how that works.
One of the ways that you can find information on the Internet
is to know the address, to actually know ahead of time what the
location is, where you want to go.
Before I came here, I did a little research on Philadelphia,
and I found out the location of a page with information on
Philadelphia. So if I choose to go there, I go up under the file
menu, select open location, then I type in the address. And
again, now is the case where I'd have to use those letters that we
learned about this morning, HTTP:\\WWW.Phila.Com. And that's the
address of the location I've known about ahead of time. So I say
I'm ready, let's go there.
What I get welcomed to is Philadelphia's Newest Web Site, the
Key to the City. So if I scroll a little bit further down, I see
that I have three keyholes, one for business, one for pleasure,
and one for service. So, since this is mostly business here, I'm
going to go to the pleasure one right now.
(Laughter)
THE WITNESS: And now I get an even more interesting picture.
It's a room with many doors, the key to the city. I have different
kinds of doors here with numbers above it, and with numbers down
below that correspond to the doors. So I have the choice of
either clicking or actually going. So I thought I'd go to the
Sports Door, which is actually a locker room, so I can click right
on that door, and it will take me to some more information.
So I come to a sports page about Philadelphia, and if I'm a
Phillies fan interested in what the Phillies' schedule might be,
or want to go to the games -- Mmm. Well, we just had a little
crash of the computer, so... I'm going to start Netscape up again.
JUDGE SLOVITER: I thought that only happened to me.
THE WITNESS: Okay. I'm going to reboot the computer. It
didn't happen yesterday. But that does happen with computers, so
you just kind of start over.
MR. ENNIS: While this is happening, are there any questions
the Court has that she could be explaining?
JUDGE DALZELL: No.
THE WITNESS: This will take a few minutes again for it to
start up, and it will again ask me for my password, and then we'll
just get back to where we were.
(Pause in proceedings.)
THE WITNESS: Okay. We'll try it again. I'm going to go
back into Netscape. One of the things that -- if you've actually
been to a location, and you know that you like that location and
you want to go back there, you can actually ask the computer to
remember that location, put it into what's called a bookmark, and
so I actually did that the other day when I was looking in
Philadelphia. So now I can just go back to the Key to
Philadelphia, instead of retyping the name. I'm still choosing
where I want to go, but I've also chosen to remember where I've
been, so I can return to that same location. And we can just
repeat the steps that I did before.
MR. ENNIS: I apologize to the Court. We've ran through this
twice before, and did not have these difficulties. If we might
ask a more technical person to approach here, we might be able to
figure --
JUDGE DALZELL: Sure.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Sure.
MR. ENNIS: -- out a way around that.
JUDGE DALZELL: By all means.
JUDGE SLOVITER: If you need one of ours to help, we'll send
one down.
MR. ENNIS: We may, your Honor.
(Pause in proceedings.)
JUDGE SLOVITER: While -- while we have a few minutes, we'll
talk to counsel. We have a motion on behalf of amici curiae to
file --
MR. COPPOLINO: I'm sorry. I didn't hear that, your Honor.
JUDGE SLOVITER: We have a motion on behalf of the Author's
Guild, et al, to --
JUDGE DALZELL: Leave.
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- file -- leave to file a brief in support
of plaintiffs' motion. And I understand there's an objection by
the Government, and if so, I wanted to find out when you could
file your opposition, that's all.
MR. COPPOLINO: Well, maybe I don't have an objection anymore
then, your Honor. I -- I said that I would reserve the right to
object.
My view was consistent with the decision I think that Judge
Dalzell made a few days ago, to not have amicus on the grounds
that counsel for ACLU and for Jenner and Block (ph) are very well
and capably representing the positions of the plaintiffs. I
thought that -- in fact, I hadn't even seen that amicus request
before. So that was our disposition. If the Court feels
otherwise -- I don't think we want another brief to write.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Oh.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Well, then we'll look at it.
MR. COPPOLINO: Fine.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. I mean we weren't backpacking --
JUDGE DALZELL: We just got it this morning, ourselves.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And we were told that you objected, and that
was the only reason that I thought we'd ask.
MR. COPPOLINO: I reserve the right to object, solely on the
basis of what I read in Judge Dalzell's order, assuming that the
Court might not want to consider an amicus brief for the reasons
stated in that order.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yeah. Well, we're not encouraging extra
briefs either. We have a lot to read.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Why don't we just defer?
JUDGE SLOVITER: All right. We'll defer ruling on it.
MR. COPPOLINO: Okay. Thank you.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. And maybe at some point, you can tell
us orally, if you have any basis to object, so you won't have to
write another brief.
THE WITNESS: We'll try again.
JUDGE DALZELL: All right.
THE WITNESS: I don't know whether there's something about
the Philadelphia Phillies that doesn't want me to go there --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Oh.
THE WITNESS: -- so I'm going to move on.
JUDGE DALZELL; They had a tough year last year.
(Laughter)
JUDGE SLOVITER: Try the ballet.
JUDGE DALZELL: Maybe put arts.
THE WITNESS: One of the really practical ways that I
actually used the Internet yesterday when we were setting up, is
someone was here and wanted to fax something back to the hotel,
and we were able to use the Internet, the Key to Philadelphia,
find the location of the hotel and the fax number, and fax
something off. So there's some very practical applications.
Another thing that you might possibly do if you were wanting
to go to some other location, if you had a trip to Paris planned,
you might want to get some information about the Louvre before you
went there. So you could also know the address of that location,
and type it in.
JUDGE DALZELL: This is the address of the Louvre?
THE WITNESS: Pardon?
JUDGE DALZELL: This is the address of the Louvre you're
putting?
THE WITNESS: Of the Louvre, right.
(Pause in proceedings.)
THE WITNESS: Okay. And now this will take me to -- I
typed it incorrectly -- to information about the Louvre. So it
really begins to show you the global nature of the Internet and
how you can just travel all places in different parts of the
world.
Now sometimes it takes a while to get things. We happen to
be using the Internet at a time when all of California has
awakened and is on the Internet, and the East Coast is still using
the Internet, so sometimes it takes a little while to get -- get
places. I'll try again.
JUDGE DALZELL: Because it's going to France now.
THE WITNESS: That's correct. I believe it's going. It
actually -- I assume that the origin of this is in Paris, although
I actually don't know. Sometimes they have sites where they keep
pieces of the information in different areas --
JUDGE DALZELL: Right.
THE WITNESS: -- so it actually could be accessing a computer
that I don't know exactly where the location is.
JUDGE DALZELL: A question I had for our witness this morning
which I'll have to wait until tomorrow about, right?
THE WITNESS: I'm not getting there, so let me try one more
time.
(Pause in proceedings.)
THE WITNESS: Well, let's -- another place that I had
actually looked at to go beforehand was to the museums of London.
Let's see if we can get to London instead of to Paris right now.
Okay. So Paris was busy, and now we've gone to London, so --
and this gives you a list of the various museums of London, and if
I followed one of these links, I would then be able to get
information about what was being shown. So if I go to say, the
National Gallery, it would show me what exhibits were being shown,
or some information about the National Gallery, so...
Now, when I've chosen to go to these places, it's because
I've known the location that I want to go to. Sometimes you don't
know where you want to go, or where the information is, and you
need to use one of the search engines that I think Mr. Bradner
mentioned this morning.
An example of that is last year, my daughter, who is a
freshman in high school, had to do a report on the Fragile X
Syndrome. And our encyclopedia didn't have anything about, and it
was Sunday night, with the report due Monday. So access to
libraries was a big limited.
So we sat down at the computer together, and we went and used
one of the search engines. There are a number of different search
engines that are available.
The one that we're going to use this morning is called
Infoseek. And it gives you information. It says search for
information about, so I type in Fragile X, and I say search now.
What I'm going to get is -- it's going to go out in its database
and find me citations, much like a card catalogue, of what matches
Fragile X. If I look over here on the right, I can see these
citations. It tells me there's a research foundation newsletter,
and if I scroll up a little more, there's actually something that
says, what is Fragile X. If I follow that link, I can then get
some information about the Fragile X Syndrome.
JUDGE DALZELL: Now this search engine that you have, do you
pay for that, or does that come as part of your package?
THE WITNESS: That's part of -- they're -- they're sort of
built into the Internet as part of the browser.
JUDGE DALZELL: The Netscape browser.
THE WITNESS: The Netscape browser. So there I have
information about Fragile X, and it was the jumping off point for
her to do her report.
In fact, in one of the places that we found some research,
there was actually an E Mail address of someone that was doing
current research in that area. And she had the opportunity to E
Mail this person, who was not located in our area, to get
information about the Fragile X Syndrome.
JUDGE DALZELL: Mrs. Duvall, do we know from this, where this
is from?
THE WITNESS: No. I don't know where this is coming from.
JUDGE DALZELL: And is there any way we could find out -- you
know, for -- if we wanted to cite it? That is to say, if your
daughter wanted to cite it --
THE WITNESS: Right. Right.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- in her paper, what would she put?
THE WITNESS: Well, she would probably put this Internet
address. But I would also look a little further, to see if there
were any -- I'd probably go back to the Fragile Research
Foundation home page, and see if they had some information about
it. So you have to travel around a little bit.
JUDGE DALZELL: Do -- do that, would you? Would you --
THE WITNESS: I think she actually cited the Internet as her
reference, and I think --
JUDGE DALZELL: Would you surf to that home page?
THE WITNESS: Sure. Okay. Here I also look up -- here I
say the reference section includes several texts on educational
strategy, so there is probably a reference section in addition,
that will give me some quotations.
JUDGE SLOVITER: But somebody -- but somebody has compiled
this --
THE WITNESS: Mm-hmm.
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- for this purpose.
THE WITNESS: Mm-hmm.
JUDGE SLOVITER: This isn't word for word from some
publication that -- I think that maybe Judge Dalzell's question
also, that appears somewhere.
THE WITNESS: Right. That's my understanding. Someone has
compiled this. If there has been something that is actual
citation, such as I believe Mr. Bradner mentioned, the Homeland,
then it would give credit to the place that it had come from.
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, maybe the Fragile Foundation put it on,
because --
THE WITNESS: Right.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- it has here, what is Fragile X.
THE WITNESS: Uh-huh.
JUDGE DALZELL: So presumably, that's what you just had on
your screen.
THE WITNESS: That's right. That's a link back to the page
that I just saw.
JUDGE DALZELL: So that's a link. You could just -- we
could just test that right now.
THE WITNESS: Right. And that would take me back to where --
probably where I just was.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yeah. Now we know.
THE WITNESS: Right. Okay. Now, these are things that I've
done, sort of, with my 15 year old. There's also -- many parents
that are getting on line with younger children that have some
concerns about letting their children roam freely on the Internet,
they'd like to have some information about sites that were perhaps
geared a little bit more towards children.
And one of the search engines that's out there is called
Yahoo, and they've just created a new site called Yahooligans. So
if we go take a visit to -- just make sure I spell it right --
will take us to a site called Yahooligans. And as this comes up,
you can see that it's really -- the content is really geared for
younger children -- pictures and science and oddities, and art
soup, things like that. So these are the kinds of new content
that's been coming up that's really available for young -- for
young children to see.
One of the areas that I have had great interest in is Street
Smart on the Web, so I'm going to follow that link. And what
Yahooligans has included is the fact that the Internet is a great
and wonderful place to see, but there are also some areas that can
be troublesome, or some areas you might not -- have things you
might not want your child to see.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Before you go on, what category -- what
would be the generic name of what is Yahooligans, in terms of the
testimony that we heard this morning? Is that a --
THE WITNESS: That's a URL.
JUDGE SLOVITER: That's a URL.
THE WITNESS: I believe.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay.
JUDGE DALZELL: But Yahoo was a search engine?
THE WITNESS: Well, Yahoo is a company that has a search
engine and they also created this page for children -- JUDGE
DALZELL: Okay.
THE WITNESS: -- so it wasn't connected with the search
engine --
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
THE WITNESS: -- at that moment. So these rules for safety
are ones that were presented from the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children. And I use them a lot when I'm talking
with parents that are getting on line for the first time, to help
them understand that it's important for kids not to give out
personal information, like their address and phone number, their
parents' work address and phone number. And these are just some
general rules that are printed here on the screen that parents can
see and understand some of the pitfalls of the Internet, and all
the wonderful things of the Internet as well.
Now if I scroll a little bit further down on this page,
there's also a pointer to Surfwatch, Protect Your Kinds on the
Net. And I can actually click that and go to the location on
line.
Now the interesting thing is, is that where we are actually
now is -- if you remember, we were at Surfwatch home page when I
first started. We've now come in to a lower place in the
Surfwatch home page. So we don't have to always go down through
the top we've come to, because there was a link directly to some
lower location, we could get to that location immediately, which
sort of explains why this is called a Web, as opposed to just a
tree, because you can jump in at any point.
And here, immediately --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Could you bookmark to this particular --
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- like the thing that we just saw, the page
we just saw, in which the child learns to say I will not give
anyone my address?
THE WITNESS: Yes. Okay.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Can you bookmark to that, or do you have to
bookmark to the whole thing?
THE WITNESS: No. I'll show you exactly. I can go back.
There's a back key, right up here at the top, which keeps a record
of where I've been. So now I'm going to go back to that page,
which is right here, so you can go back to that information you've
seen. I go up under bookmark, and I say add bookmark.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Just to that -- and that gets it to that
page.
THE WITNESS: That's it. Now if you look at bookmarks now,
you'll see the bottom one says Street Smart on the Web.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Mm-hmm.
THE WITNESS: So now I can go back to that at any point. Now
I'll go forward to the point that I had just left.
This is an advertise -- or a place where parents can actually
purchase Surfwatch right on line. If they click there, they will
go to the Internet Shopping Network and can actually order the
software right on line, and they will actually will be able to
download it on their computer.
Now, Surfwatch and the other parental technology is available
in stores, available on line like this, available from our company
directly.
So what is Surfwatch and where did it come from? We --
Surfwatch is -- the product was -- is less than a year old, as is
the other parental control technologies, and it came from my
husband and myself, concerned about things that were on the
Internet that we felt were inappropriate for our child. And my
husband has a long technical background, 30 years of experience in
this field. So we were able to actually implement the technology
that both of us felt was important to have on the Internet.
MR. COPPOLINO: Well -- excuse me, your Honor. I really
don't mean to interrupt, but we're getting beyond demonstration,
into a direct testimony type situation where she's just --
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, she's just giving a background of her
company. Objection overruled.
THE WITNESS: So -- you know, and we really felt like what we
wanted to provide were tools. We understood that what our
concerns for our kids were different than some other concerns for
other -- that other parents might have for their children.
So we really wanted to be able to provide tools, that if
parents had serious concerns about what their kids saw on the
Internet, they could have very severe filtering technology, and
parents who were less concerned with the risk, could allow their
kids to wander a little bit more.
And for me, I believed it was important to have my child
wander on the Internet as much as I wanted.
So Surfwatch is a product that during this whole
demonstration, has been on my computer right here, running the
whole time in the background. So you can see it's allowed us to
search anywhere that we wanted to go on the Internet, hasn't
interfered with us going anywhere, and we still have it running,
and it's in the background.
We designed Surfwatch to be easy to install, and easy for
parents who don't have a lot of computer experience to put on
their machine. And it's about a 10 minute time period to install
it, and they install it with their own personal password.
So how does Surfwatch work? Well, one of the things that we
did is I knew addresses of where -- places that I might want to
go. Well, sometimes kids know addresses of places that they might
want to go. And it is possible that kids might know that Playboy
Magazine exists on the Internet. So they might know the address of
that. And if they open the -- do the open location of
HTTP:\\WWW.Playboy, and they hit the open, they will get a message
--
(Laughter)
THE WITNESS: Well, again, the Net is slow, so it's actually
got to go out and check and see if this is something that
Surfwatch blocks, but it should come back blocked by Surfwatch.
JUDGE DALZELL: Is that because it's stopping it? It's
programmed to stop it, or -- or will a -- should a message come
up?
THE WITNESS: A message should come up. And I don't
understand why that's not coming up. So -- I mean what's
happening is I can't get there. So that's sort of good news.
JUDGE DALZELL: So that's just as effective, I guess, huh?
THE WITNESS: Let's try -- let me see if a bookmark to it
will get the connection to work. Well, I don't know. But anyway,
let's move on. We'll come back and do that one in a few minutes.
The other thing that -- that I --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Well, in order to show how, to demonstrate,
could you think of an -- I don't know the name of another
magazine. Do you know the name of another magazine that would be
locked?
JUDGE DALZELL: Something else that you know -- that you know
you've blocked.
THE WITNESS: Well, I'm going to show you how to block
something else, then I'll come back and do Playboy in a minute.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay.
THE WITNESS: We -- we did a word search before. So I'm now
-- kids often will go to one of the search engines and try
searching on a word. So for example, if they type in the word
sexy, and they try and do a search, they get blocked by Surfwatch.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Oh.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
THE WITNESS: Okay. So the message does come up. And they
might be a little more sophisticated. So they might type in the
word erotic. And these are words that we have found most likely
lead to places that we think might contain material that's
inappropriate for children.
JUDGE DALZELL: Now how do you override it?
THE WITNESS: Okay. I'll show you that in a second.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
THE WITNESS: So let me actually try Playboy one more time.
My guess is that often what happens with a lot of these sites is
they get very busy in the middle of the day, and you actually
can't --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Playboy.
THE WITNESS: Yes. And you actually can't have access to it,
which is actually a deterrent, often when a lot of people are
going there. But it's not a guarantee, but, you know, it is
blocked by Surfwatch.
JUDGE DALZELL: So that may explain why it's slow, because
there's just a lot of traffic on that?
THE WITNESS: There's a -- this is -- this is the most busy
time on the Internet, during the day. When California's awake,
and the East Coast still is busy. It's a very busy time on the
Internet, so...
JUDGE DALZELL: We have California time on your terminal.
THE WITNESS: I do. It's because it's my portable that I
brought from home, so...so... there. Okay. So I typed in another
magazine. I typed in Penthouse. That's the message I should get
from Playboy. The only explanation I can give is that for some
reason, it's busy out there and I can't get out there. But that's
the message you get when you attempt to go to a site like that.
So you asked how easy it is to turn off? That's just another
message that Netscape is giving me that it can't -- it was refused
access to Penthouse. It's sort of a double message because
Surfwatch blocked it, and then Netscape said I couldn't get there,
but it couldn't get there at that point because Surfwatch had
actually blocked it.
So to turn it off, I go to what's called the control panel,
and there's Surfwatch sitting there. And it's turned on,
registered to me. I go to turn it off. It asks me for my
personal password, okay.
If I type in something -- a kid tries to type in something,
you try it, it says, you entered the incorrect password. Nothing
has been changed. If I try again, and type in the password that I
know is correct, it turns it off.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
THE WITNESS: And now I have access to all of those sites
that previously were blocked. And a parent can use this at any
time, because it may be the case that Surfwatch has blocked
something that a parent thinks is appropriate for their child to
see. They can turn Surfwatch off at any time, and go to that
location.
And Surfwatch will have available in about a month, something
called the Surfwatch Manager, which will allow people to actually
add and delete their sites right there, as they're using the
computer. So if we've blocked something someone would like
unblocked, or vice-versa, they will have a chance to actually
change that right now.
And in addition, if a parent wanted -- if a parent was really
concerned with what their kids saw and didn't want them very much
surfing the net, Surfwatch has a capability to block everything on
the Internet, except for the explicit sites that a parent might
choose to allow the person -- allow their child to access. So you
could block everything, except for the hundred sites that the
parent might want the child to access.
So that's the end of my demo. I just -- it was important for
me to actually put some visual stuff to what you had seen this
morning, so that it actually began to make some sense of what the
Web is.
I think it's important, from my point of view, that the Web
is a place where you actually make an affirmative choice to go
places. It doesn't just come at you. You actually choose to go
to locations at each place, each step along the way, and secondly,
that it's a global network. That's what's so exciting. I mean I
was -- tried to get to Paris -- London, and you could go lots of
different places in the world. I think that's really important.
And that there are tools that exist for parents, and this is
a brand new technology. We're growing. We have lots of new
exciting ideas coming. We're changing and adopting to what the
customers want and what's needed in there. But there is
technology that allows parents to make choices about what their
children see on the net.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Is that the end of show and tell?
JUDGE DALZELL: Is that the end of the direct --
THE WITNESS: Yes, it is.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- as supplemented?
MR. ENNIS: That's the end of our demonstration, your Honor.
The Government may want to cross-examine, and if the Court has
additional questions --
JUDGE DALZELL: Sure. Mr. Coppolino, will you be doing that?
MR. COPPOLINO: I will be. Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Are you going to be using this? Are we going
to be using these again during this hearing?
MR. COPPOLINO: Today, your Honor? I don't believe so.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Ever?
MR. COPPOLINO: Yes. I think these should be available for
when we present our case.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. Okay. It's just a bit of a -- if we
could get it off --
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, maybe --
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- we might not feel so --
JUDGE DALZELL: Would it be possible during the break, or --
MR. ENNIS: Well, your Honor, it would just take a moment to
lift it down.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- just to take a moment.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Well, not this second.
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, you told me yesterday, you could just
take it off right now.
MR. ENNIS: Right. Right. Why don't we do that? If the
Government doesn't need the monitors, we can take this down right
now.
JUDGE DALZELL: You don't need the monitors, Mr. Coppolino?
MR. COPPOLINO: No.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Today.
MR. COPPOLINO: We don't need them today.
JUDGE DALZELL: Today, okay. Yeah. Yeah. That would be --
JUDGE SLOVITER: If that would be all right, Mr. Coppolino,
we would be able to have -- get our own material.
JUDGE DALZELL: It gives us a little more space.
(Pause in proceedings.)
JUDGE SLOVITER: There's a wonderful --
JUDGE DALZELL: Free at last.
MR. ENNIS: I'm going to turn the monitors off and display,
if that's acceptable to the Government and to the Court.
MR. COPPOLINO: Could I just clarify, your Honor, does the
witness have a copy of her affidavit direct testimony?
JUDGE DALZELL: Do you have this in front of you?
THE WITNESS: No, I don't.
JUDGE DALZELL: Mr. Ennis, or one of your colleagues, could
you --
MR. ENNIS: Yes, I can get one quickly, your Honor.
MR. COPPOLINO: And also, your Honor, is there a copy of any
of the defendant's exhibits left over from this morning? Because
if not --
JUDGE DALZELL: I could give her mine, if you'd like.
MR. COPPOLINO: No. At the appropriate point, I can hand her
a copy, your Honor.
JUDGE SLOVITER: All right.
MR. ENNIS: I gave them back to your side during the lunch
break.
MR. COPPOLINO: Oh, you gave them back. Okay. Well, we'll
hand it up when we need them.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q Good afternoon, Mrs. Duvall. Nice to see you again. First,
with respect to your professional background, do you have any
expertise in computer programming?
A No, I do not.
Q Do you have any expertise in computer software development?
A No, I do not.
Q Do you have any expertise in computer hardware development?
A No, I do not.
Q Do you have any expertise in Internet transmission protocols?
A No, I do not.
Q Is it correct to say that your expertise does not extend to
the specific technical details as to how Surfwatch actually
operates on a computer system?
A That is correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: Could you speak into the -- pull the
microphone --
THE WITNESS: Okay.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- is it on, the microphone?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Go ahead.
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q And so is it fair to say that your expertise is in what
Surfwatch does, as opposed to precisely how it does it on a
technical basis? Is that a fair statement?
A Yes, it is.
Q I'd like to refer you to paragraph 21 of your direct testimony
affidavit, please. And paragraph 21 describes some of the
criteria that Surfwatch uses to block access to sexually explicit
sites on the Internet. Is that correct?
A Yes, it is.
Q And just so that the record is clear, that paragraph indicates
that Surfwatch's blocking criteria includes a screen or warning at
the entrance of a site that identifies as containing adult
material, or material that is not suitable for minors, nudity,
explicit descriptions of sexual acts, obscenity, explicit
descriptions in graphics or text, of genitalia or a sexual
apparatus, and sexually exploitive or sexually violent text of
graphics. Do you agree that each of these is one of the criteria
that Surfwatch uses to block sites on the Internet?
A Yes. That's one of many of the criteria we use.
Q What additional criteria are there?
A I actually don't have the list in front of me, but these are
the main criteria, and then we actually go and look at sites, and
make a judgment based on what we see.
Q I understand.
MR. COPPOLINO: Your Honor, I am going to give the witness
the exhibit book.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Sure.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Which numbers? Which part of the exhibit
book?
MR. COPPOLINO: We're going to give her one to 45, and I'll
identify the exhibits.
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q I'll tell you which exhibit I'm going to ask you to look at.
A Okay.
(Pause in proceedings.)
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q All right. Ms. Duvall, would you take a look at Exhibit 30,
please? And do you -- do you recognize this exhibit as an exhibit
I showed you at your deposition on Monday, which lists a number of
so-called x-rated sites that are listed in the Internet yellow
pages? I believe that's the 1995 edition. Is that correct?
A Yes. I remember seeing this document.
Q All right. Are these the type of sites that Surfwatch is
designed to block?
A Yes. Surfwatch is designed to block these sites.
Q That's all we're going to do with that exhibit. Thank you.
Referring to paragraph eight of your direct testimony
--
A Excuse me. Eight?
Q Eight.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: You were talking about Exhibit 30 there?
MR. COPPOLINO: Excuse me, your Honor?
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: What exhibit were you on?
JUDGE DALZELL: 30.
MR. COPPOLINO: I was looking at 30.
JUDGE DALZELL: He had looked at 30. You got it there. You
got it now.
JUDGE SLOVITER: You mean it's designed to block these?
JUDGE DALZELL: No. Turn the page.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Oh. Oh. Okay.
MR. COPPOLINO: I asked, your Honor, if --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you. All right.
MR. COPPOLINO: I asked her if it was designed to block the
type of sites that are listed at Exhibit 30, and I believe the
witness indicated that it was.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. All right. I was looking -- okay.
Fine.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: I missed that. I missed it.
MR. COPPOLINO: I might have gone a little too quickly. I
apologize.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yeah.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Well, two out of three missed it.
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q Mrs. Duvall, you state in paragraph eight that Surfwatch
blocks access to more than 5,000 Internet sites that are known, or
appear likely to contain text or graphics of a sexual nature that
Surfwatch considers to be inappropriate for minors. Is that
correct?
A Yes, it is.
Q Is it correct that that figure could be as high as 8,000?
A It's a difficult number to actually pinpoint. Let me give you
an example. We block Playboy. We count that as one site.
Playboy actually could have multiple pages underneath that, so it
could be a hundred additional pages in that. So there -- now the
number would be a hundred and one. So depending on how we want to
actually count, we can't always count exactly the sites that we're
blocking because there could be multiple underneath a certain
header.
In addition, we block on some word and pattern matching
technology. And that's kind of a fluid ongoing thing, so we don't
actually have a count of exactly how much.
Q Well, I'm just trying to get a sense of the range of the
number of sites. Would you take a look at Exhibit 22, please, of
defendant's exhibits?
A Yes.
Q Is that the affidavit that was filed in this case, signed by
your husband, Bill Duvall?
A Yes.
Q Would you look at paragraph nine? Does paragraph nine of that
affidavit state that Surfwatch blocks access to approximately five
through 8,000 Internet sites containing sexually explicit
material? Is that correct?
A That's what it says.
Q Are you saying your husband's statement was not correct?
A No. I assume if he made that statement, that he assumed that
it was correct.
Q When Surfwatch was first introduced in May of 1985 -- is that
correct?
A '95.
Q 1995. Excuse me. Do you know roughly how many specific sites
that Surfwatch had identified that were blocked by the software?
A I don't actually have a count, back in May of 1995 when we
first released.
Q Could you give us an approximation?
A Again, since we were blocking both on word matching pattern
technology and explicit sites, it was difficult. But I would
imagine at that time, we were probably blocking about 2,000 sites.
Q Okay. Has the number of sites that -- excuse me. Could you
tell me what the increase in the number of sites that Surfwatch
has specifically identified has been since May of 1985, the number
of sites that have been specifically identified by Surfwatch?
A Again, that's a difficult number, because if I'm listing
Playboy as a specific site, I count that as one. It could also be
counted as a hundred and one.
Q Well, do you recall when we met at a deposition last Monday,
that you made a general estimate of a couple of thousand new sites
had been specifically identified by Surfwatch since May of 1995?
Do you recall that testimony?
A I don't recall exactly saying that, but --
Q Well, let me refresh your recollection, then.
MR. COPPOLINO: Your Honor, may I give the witness a copy of
her --
JUDGE DALZELL: Yes, you may.
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q I'll refer you the page...
A Okay.
Q Take a look at page 145, please. Actually, starting at the
bottom of page 144, I asked you -- and I'll just quote from the
transcript:
"Do you have any estimate of the number of new sites that
have been found since the software was released in May of 1995?"
"Answer: Not specifically, no."
"Do you have a general estimate?"
"Answer: It would be a couple of thousand."
Is that testimony correct?
A That is correct.
Q Mrs. Duvall, does Surfwatch utilize a team of so-called
surfers to search the Internet for sites that may contain sexually
explicit material, as described in paragraph 21?
A It's one of the ways we use to find new sites.
Q Excuse me?
A That's one of the ways we use to find new sites.
Q Could you indicate how many people are currently performing
this task?
A I believe we have at least 10 surfers at this time.
Q Are a number of these individuals university students?
A Yes, they are.
Q And the ones that are university students, are over the age of
21, is that correct?
A Yes, they are.
Q Okay. Approximately how many hours per week do you ask your
searchers -- does Surfwatch ask its surfers to search the net for
sites that Surfwatch may choose to block?
A We tell them we'd like to surf for a minimum of 10 hours per
week.
Q And how many hours per week do you estimate that they actually
do search, on average?
A Probably closer to 20 on average per week.
Q That's your current estimate today, of 20?
A Well --
Q Well, let me try to refresh your recollection on that one,
too. Why don't you take a look at page 49.
JUDGE DALZELL: Matt, check if her microphone is on.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Yeah. It doesn't seem --
JUDGE DALZELL: I don't think her microphone's on.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Is her microphone on?
THE WITNESS: It is. It's just not close enough to me,
probably.
JUDGE DALZELL: It's a very sensitive microphone, so...
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Mine's on off.
JUDGE DALZELL: No, no. Hers.
THE CLERK: Oh. It's on.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yeah. Okay.
JUDGE SLOVITER: You don't need yours on to get --
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: No, I put mine off.
JUDGE SLOVITER: You don't need yours on --
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: -- mine on. I don't want to --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yeah, but for you to get on the tape, don't
you need to be -- I mean in my court, you do.
MR. ENNIS: Your Honor, could we also see if this could be
turned off? We're having trouble hearing at this end as well.
JUDGE DALZELL: Have what turned off?
MR. ENNIS: Whatever this projector is.
JUDGE DALZELL: Oh, sure.
(Pause in proceedings.)
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q Mrs. Duvall, perhaps you heard me say two weeks instead of
one, but my question is the number of hours on average the surfers
search per week, and as the deposition transcript on page 49
indicates, that your estimate was, "per week, I'll say about 12
hours." Is that correct?
A That's what I said the estimate was.
Q And -- and to be accurate, you said that's a guess, or that's
an estimate, is that correct?
A Yes.
Q All right. Mrs. Duvall, do the surfers, I'll call them, that
Surfwatch utilizes, do they search for new sites with the
Surfwatch software loaded on their computers?
A Yes, they do.
Q And is the idea to find sites that Surfwatch does not block?
A Yes. That's the idea.
Q And the idea is to use the -- to load the software in advance,
so that if they find a site that's not blocked, they know that
it's not blocked. Is that correct?
A Yes.
Q And do your surfers in fact find that there are sexually
explicit sites meeting the criteria described in paragraph 21 that
are not blocked by the software when it is loaded onto the
computer?
A Yes, they do.
Q With the Surfwatch software loaded, could you indicate
approximately how many new sites your surfers find per week?
A We probably get between a hundred and 200 sites a week.
Q And is it fair to extrapolate that number out to a monthly
approximately of 400 to 800 new sites identified a month?
A Well, it's very difficult to extrapolate with a new company
that's only been around for nine months. So I would be a little
hesitant to do a lot of extrapolating.
Q Do you recall that you testified to that effect last Monday?
A No, I didn't recall --
Q Well, let's take a look at page 144 of your deposition. The
bottom of page 143 to 144. I had asked you about a weekly number.
"Was that a weekly number?"
"Answer: I said 100 to 200 a week."
"Question: So could I extrapolate out to 400 to 800 a month,
perhaps. Is that fair?"
"Answer: Sure."
Was that testimony that you gave on Monday correct?
A That is the correct testimony I gave on Monday.
Q Do you disagree with it today?
A No, I don't disagree with it. I -- it's a difficult number to
always extrapolate, since we don't have a lot of history to base
this on.
Q Mrs. Duvall, is it correct to say that Surfwatch's experiences
at the number of sites on the Internet containing sexually
explicit material of the type described in paragraph 21 is
constantly changing? Is that a correct statement?
A Yes, that is.
Q I believe your affidavit indicates in paragraph 11 that
Surfwatch offers a subscription service that automatically updates
the identification of specific sites that Surfwatch blocks. Is
that correct?
A Yes. That's correct.
Q Could you tell the Court approximately how much that service
costs per month?
A Well, if they purchase the service directly from us, it's
$5.95 a month, or $60 for a yearly subscription. But it is
available through some of the Internet Service Providers at a much
lower cost to people. It's provided -- included as part of their
package.
Q Could you indicate how often Surfwatch normally provides its
subscribers an automatic updated list of sites that have been --
that Surfwatch would add to its block site list?
A At this point, we're on a 28 day cycle.
Q Mrs. Duvall, do you agree that an important aspect of
maintaining the effectiveness of Surfwatch is to subscribe to the
list of updated sites?
A Yes, I do.
Q And would the effectiveness of Surfwatch diminish over time,
if a user did not subscribe to a list of updated block sites?
A If they were using the standard version of Surfwatch, then the
subscription wouldn't make a difference.
JUDGE SLOVITER: What was that?
JUDGE DALZELL: What did you say? I'm sorry.
THE WITNESS: If they're using the standard version. We have
a version where parents will be able to block everything on the
Internet, except what they choose their child to see, and
therefore the subscription would not make a difference at that
point --
JUDGE DALZELL: I see.
THE WITNESS: -- because they would be making their own
choices as to what they wanted their child to see.
JUDGE DALZELL: Oh, so -- go ahead.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Go ahead. Now what was --
JUDGE DALZELL: So you can get -- you can get then a version
of Surfwatch that's a total block --
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- except for sites that the parents
specifically authorize.
THE WITNESS: That's correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
JUDGE SLOVITER: But I didn't hear the answer to Mr.
Coppolino's question before, which was if you didn't get that
version and did get the regular version, but didn't get the
monthly update, what would the effectiveness be? I think that was
your question, paraphrased.
THE WITNESS: Right. Right.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And I just didn't hear your answer.
THE WITNESS: Okay. The effectiveness would diminish, as
there are new sites that are coming on the Internet all the time.
So to have the most updated filters available, you'd need to
subscribe to the service.
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q And is it -- is it fair to say that the software -- the new
software that you're developing that you've just described to the
Court, reverses the presumption, and instead of selecting sites to
block, allows parents to select sites to provide access to?
A That's correct.
Q Is Surfwatch going to cease using its annual -- or 28 day
updates of updated sites, once this new software is available that
you just described?
A Would you repeat that again, please?
Q What I wanted to know is when you have the new software that's
going to allow parents to block everything except what they want,
does Surfwatch contemplate ceasing its subscription service, which
would provide automatic updates of block sites?
A We don't plan to, at this point. And we -- I mean at this
point, we block every -- we update automatically every 28 days.
That's a number that can change at any time. We can automatically
update anybody at any time, if we so choose. They just can -- we
can set the number to be every five days, if we think that's more
appropriate, or every three days, or every two weeks. So that's a
number that's not solid, hard built into the program. We can
change that as we find maybe it's more appropriate to have someone
update on a weekly basis, instead of 28 days.
Q Does Surfwatch have any reason to believe that the need to
continue to provide an updated list of sites will diminish for the
foreseeable future?
A You're asking me to predict what's going to happen on the
Internet. It's difficult to say what will happen, as far as
people providing content on the Internet, of the nature that we
have been filtering out at this point.
Q Would you take a look at page 147 of your -- of your
deposition? I asked you then:
"Is there any reason to believe that the necessity for
Surfwatch to continue to update its list of block sites will
diminish in the foreseeable future?"
"Answer: No."
Is that your testimony on Monday?
A Yes, it is.
Q Paragraph seven of your -- of your affidavit today, if you
could take a look at that, please. You use a phrase, "the tiny
portion of inappropriate material on the Internet." Do you
consider the 5,000 sites that Surfwatch attempts to screen to be a
tiny portion of inappropriate material on the Internet?
A Yes, I do.
Q And what's the basis for that statement? Have you -- let me
-- let me strike that question and ask this one. Have you done
any statistical analysis of the percentage of material that
Surfwatch screens, as a percentage of the total material on the
Internet?
A Would you repeat that question?
Q Have you done a -- has Surfwatch done a statistical analysis
of the percentage of the material that Surfwatch screens, as a
percentage of the total material on the Internet?
A We haven't done it -- we -- Surfwatch has not done any
statistical analysis.
Q Does your -- is your statement in this paragraph reflecting a
particular study?
A Where's that -- where are you, paragraph seven?
Q Paragraph seven. The characterization, "a tiny portion of
inappropriate material on the Internet."
A I'm not seeing that.
Q Of your affidavit. It's in the second sentence.
A The second sentence of paragraph seven, or am I looking at the
wrong thing?
Q Well, I think so, but most of your --
A I'm looking at the wrong affidavit.
MR. COPPOLINO: Could I assist the witness perhaps, your
Honor?
JUDGE DALZELL: It's this one, in the binder here.
THE WITNESS: Okay. There were two of them, and I was
looking at the wrong one.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: You can assist her, though.
JUDGE DALZELL: Page four.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yeah. You want to show her, Mr. Coppolino?
THE WITNESS: Sorry?
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q I was referring to your --
A Oh, okay. Okay. That's what I was -- they look -- yeah. Q
Tab C.
A Okay. Thank you.
Q That -- that -- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
A Is that -- okay. That wasn't in the other one. Okay. Okay.
Well, just -- I mean from my experience in what I know is out on
the Internet, and there have been some numbers that have bantered
around, that there are over 50 million pages of information on the
Internet, I tend to believe that there is a small amount of
inappropriate material on the Internet.
Q But according to your affidavit, there are at least 5,000 to
8,000 sites that Surfwatch has currently identified. Is that
correct?
A About 5,000 sites that we block, that aren't --
Q That you block.
A Right.
Q Well, I assume that includes a combination of those you've
identified, as well as a text blocking mechanism. Is that
correct?
A Yes.
Q Okay. And incidentally, if you block something by the text
blocking mechanism, are you aware -- you become aware of the
specific site?
A No, we do not.
Q Would you take a look at paragraph 23, please? If you'd like
to take a moment to look through paragraph 23. Have you had a
chance to look over paragraph 23, Mrs. Duvall?
A Mm-hmm.
Q Paragraph 23 indicates in the second to last sentence, that
Surfwatch blocks 90 to 95 percent of certain sites --I'm not
quoting exactly, so I'm going to let you explain this --
A Mm-hmm.
Q -- but 90 to 95 percent of certain sites identified by
sexually explicit key words, such as sexy or erotica, is that --
is that correct, that Surfwatch says that it blocks 90 to 95
percent of certain sites identified by sexually explicit key
words, such as sexy or erotica? Is that -- is that the --
A What -- what that -- what that really means is that we believe
that most sites that attract -- there's so many sites on the
Internet, that there has to be something that attracts someone to
go to that site. So either it's a site that they know about, such
as Playboy.Com, or it's a site that has something in its title
that's going to draw someone to there. If there's a site that
says Ann's Home Page, it's not likely, if a child is searching for
sexually explicit material, they're going to go to that home page.
But if something says sexy, sexy, sexy in the title, there's
a good chance that a child might be attracted to that.
And since we can block on what's in the title, we've come to
find that we believe we block about 90 to 95 percent of what we
call the readily available sites on the Internet that contain
sexually explicit material. And it has been our experience in the
thousands of copies that we have out there, that we're not getting
a huge amount of complaints from parents and teachers that we're
missing huge amounts of material that students and kids are
finding on the Internet.
Q Mrs. Duvall, do you recall describing this estimate to me last
Monday in your deposition, as a marketing statement?
A I said that it was used -- that I had taken it -- my husband
had taken it from a marketing statement, that we had used it as a
marketing statement.
Q As a Surfwatch marketing statement.
A Mm-hmm. Yes.
Q You testified previously that the number of sexually explicit
sites on the Internet is changing constantly. Is that correct?
A That's correct.
Q And you also testified previously I believe that your surfers
are finding a hundred to 200 new sites per week, that Surfwatch
would block. Is that correct?
A That's correct.
Q Is it possible to determine at any given time how many
sexually explicit sites are actually added and removed from the
Internet?
A No.
Q One question with respect to the demonstration. I believe you
indicated that in order to connect to the Internet, somebody had
to buy a modem. Could you indicate to the Court whether or not
there are computers that actually come with a modem built in?
A There are computers that come with modems.
Q Is it some, or many, or most? Do you know?
A I don't have that -- no, I don't know that information.
Q So you wouldn't know if it's -- if it's today's technology,
would you know whether or not most computers come with a modem
built in?
A No, I wouldn't.
Q You don't know?
A I don't know.
Q Okay.
MR. COPPOLINO: I thank the Court.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Mr. Ennis?
MR. ENNIS: Just a couple of brief questions.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MR. ENNIS:
Q Mrs. Duvall, you were testifying today, primarily on behalf of
Surfwatch. But is it fair to say that there are several other
software companies that produce comparable products?
A Yes, there are.
Q And do some of those other companies produce products that
permit parents to choose to block all access to the Internet,
except for sites the parents have previously selected as
appropriate?
A To my understanding, yes.
Q I think there's been a little confusion about how your
blocking works. Is it fair to say that you block sites,
regardless of whether the site in its address has a sexy word, if
you know the site contains inappropriate material? Is that
correct?
A That is correct.
Q Like, for example, you said Ann's Home Page. That doesn't
sound bad, but if you knew that Ann's Home Page contained
inappropriate material, you would block that site as a site,
correct?
A Absolutely.
Q And then is it also true that you block because of your word
pattern technology system, so that if the address of the site has
a word like sexy or porn, or cyberporn, you would block that site
for that reason?
A That's correct.
Q Now, you testified that insofar as you're blocking by known
site, that if you don't subscribe to the service, the
effectiveness of site blocking will diminish over time, correct?
A That's correct.
Q Is that also correct, or is that incorrect when you're
blocking with respect to word recognition?
A Not -- absolutely not the same amount, because the words are
always there, and will remain there, and we will continue to block
on those words forever.
Q So that hypothetically --
A Mm-hmm.
Q -- if, in a two week period, 200 new sites were added to the
Web, and all of those 200 new sites had a word in the title, like
adult, or sexy, or erotic --
A Mm-hmm.
Q -- even if you hadn't investigated those sites individually,
they'd be blocked?
A That's absolutely correct.
MR. ENNIS: I have no further questions.
MR. COPPOLINO: Could I ask one?
JUDGE SLOVITER: Oh, yeah. We may have some, too.
MR. COPPOLINO: I understand, your Honor.
RECROSS EXAMINATION
BY MR. COPPOLINO:
Q Mrs. Duvall, just following up on Mr. Ennis' questions, if
Surfwatch had not previously identified the site captioned Ann's
Home Page, or something of that nature -- let's just say Ann's
Home Page -- as containing sexually explicit material, if you had
not previously identified that specific site, would the site be
blocked by Surfwatch?
A No.
MR. COPPOLINO: Thank you.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Could I ask some questions?
JUDGE DALZELL: I have some, too. You go first.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Is Surfwatch a money making project?
THE WITNESS: I hope so.
(Laughter)
JUDGE DALZELL: That's the -- that's the hope.
JUDGE SLOVITER: If it stopped being a money making project,
would you -- and your children had become adults, there would be
-- is it correct that there would be no reason for you to continue
with this project?
THE WITNESS: Well, I think the original reason that inspired
the idea was that we have a child at home. But as we have
developed this software, it's become very clear to me that parents
would like to have tools for themselves, to use on the Internet,
as their children become -- come on the Internet, for them to help
filter out what they think is inappropriate. So I would like to
continue the work that we've begun at Surfwatch.
JUDGE SLOVITER: But there's no assurance to the public, the
Government, parents, that your particular company will remain in
existence and provide this alternative. Is that right?
THE WITNESS: That's probably correct.
JUDGE SLOVITER: On the other hand, I gather what you're
telling us is that the facility exists, so that if you don't do it
-- because, with all due respect, one might say you're a small
entity in this totality of what we heard the first witness talk
about --
THE WITNESS: Mm-hmm.
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- somebody else might do it.
THE WITNESS: In addition, I think that we --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Well --
THE WITNESS: Okay.
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- yes or no on that, first.
THE WITNESS: Yes. No, that's true. Someone else might do
it.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And at the moment, you're -- I assume you're
paying these college students and one, as I know as a parent of
one that just finished, you can't always be sure that they won't
be busy doing exams, or other things. Is that correct?
THE WITNESS: That's correct.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Have you ever explored the possibility of
contacting parents' groups, and church groups, and other groups
that might be interested in this, to notify you of appropriate --
what they would think are words that should be added, or sites
that should be added?
THE WITNESS: Absolutely. In fact, we solicit from our
customers now to send us information if they find sites that we
aren't blocking, so --
JUDGE SLOVITER: But do you checks those sites before you
block them, to see whether your view as to whether they should be
blocked, may differ from the view of your volunteer?
THE WITNESS: Yes, we do. We check all the sites.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Then your subscribers -- is it correct to
say that your subscribers are dependent on your view of what may
be inappropriate for children?
THE WITNESS: At this point, yes.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Judge Dalzell.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yeah. I had a couple questions on your
declaration. On page 19 in paragraph 39, you make reference to
"parental control software that blocks access to non-Internet
sites also is available." Could you tell me, what is a non-
Internet site?
THE WITNESS: That was in reference to -- there's some
bulletin boards, some separate computers that people can dial from
their home, directly to a bulletin board. And there is some
software available that will allow you to actually block on
specific phone numbers and -- and whatever.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. If you know what those numbers are.
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. I got you. And on page 20, paragraph
41, you make the statement that 30 percent of Surfwatch blocked
sites, "originate outside the United States." How do you know
that?
THE WITNESS: That's from our actual list of sites that we
block, so that number may actually be higher than that. But of
the known sites where we specifically have the name of the site,
it's approximately 30 percent of those that come from outside --
JUDGE DALZELL: And how are you able to tell that they
originate outside the United States?
THE WITNESS: Well, even though today, when I wasn't sure
that I came from Paris, many sites actually do have an identifier
on them that indicate what country they originated.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. So it's based on an actual canvas that
you've done --
THE WITNESS: It's an --
JUDGE DALZELL: -- of these sites.
THE WITNESS: It's an actual address. We can look at the
address, and decide whether it comes from United Kingdom or
Finland.
JUDGE DALZELL: Let's assume there's 5,000 blocked sites.
You have actually counted, or your firm has actually counted 1500
-- to wit, 30 percent as being from outside the United States. Is
that correct?
THE WITNESS: That's correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
THE WITNESS: We didn't count. We used the computers to help
us figure that out, so...
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. And last -- two other questions. You
also --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yes. The answer's yes. You may ask.
(Laughter)
JUDGE DALZELL: Thank you. You also say at page 31, you make
the statement, which I'm curious to know what the source of the
information is --
THE WITNESS: What page was that?
JUDGE DALZELL: -- that 50 percent of the nation's public
schools have connected to the Internet. You cite a survey by the
U.S. Department of Education. Could you be more specific?
THE WITNESS: What page are you on?
JUDGE DALZELL: Page 14.
THE WITNESS: 14.
JUDGE DALZELL: Paragraph 31. And you go on to say that your
firm has sold its software to these school districts. You see the
bottom of page 14?
THE WITNESS: Right. Okay. We -- this was a survey that was
listed in the local paper, that 50 percent of the nation's public
schools have connected to the Internet. That was --
JUDGE DALZELL: What percentage of your customers are public
schools?
THE WITNESS: I'd say presently about 70 percent of our
customers are public schools.
JUDGE DALZELL: 70?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Percent. And lastly, how many units,
approximately, have you sold to date?
THE WITNESS: That is a very difficult number for me to come
up with.
JUDGE DALZELL: It's your company.
THE WITNESS: It is. I know it's my company. We sell a
certain number from our local office. We also have retail
distribution that goes through a distributor.
And in addition, we have -- we've done a deal called Internet
in a Box For Kids, and recently, Family PC Magazine shipped a
hundred thousand of these CDs out to families.
So it's really difficult for us to say really how many
installed products we have. We don't actually know that someone's
installed until they actually subscribe. And what we do is we
give people a couple of months of free update, so they can get
used to the pattern, see how it works. So we're just beginning to
get those figures coming in, since we are such a new company.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. So how many subscribers would you say
you have now, roughly?
THE WITNESS: About 1500 subscribers.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Very good.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Do you have competitors out there?
THE WITNESS: We sure do.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: How many do you have, just roughly?
THE WITNESS: There are probably four that I know of right
now.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Mm-hmm.
THE WITNESS: And there are a few others that are lurking,
I'm sure.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Okay. How do you -- I think you explained
how you override the Surfwatch. Is that through a -- some kind of
code?
THE WITNESS: Basically, it's a password that the parent, or
whoever installs the software, puts in. They make it up when they
actually install the software.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: They make -- they --
THE WITNESS: They make it up. It's like your PIN number at
your bank. So you make it up when you install the software, and
then you just use that same password.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Can a clever person get a hold of that
somehow, or is there a way of finding that out?
THE WITNESS: There's no way of --
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Other than the -- other than the parent or
--
THE WITNESS: Parent telling it.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: -- revealing it.
THE WITNESS: There's no -- it's not an easy way. We've taken
a lot of effort to try and prevent tampering of the software. And
I'd say in the numbers that we have out there, we've received very
few complaints from parents or teachers that the children have
disabled the software.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Okay. That's all.
JUDGE SLOVITER: I have a question.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Thank you.
JUDGE SLOVITER: If you could get the public schools in this
country, or private schools -- Catholic schools, for example -- to
agree on what was inappropriate material, could they develop their
own version of Surfwatch or a blocker?
THE WITNESS: What we have available today is --because we
have this -- different filters available, if you wanted to put
together a list of sites that you wanted blocked, and then make
that available -- for example, the Boy Scouts of America wanted to
put together a list, or the schools wanted to put together a list
of sites that they wanted blocked. We would create a special
filter set for the school. And then, if they had technology like
Surfwatch, then they would have access to that specific filter
set.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Would they need you to make out the filter
set? In other words --
THE WITNESS: No. They could --
JUDGE SLOVITER: -- somebody who was -- who knew as much
technical -- had as much technical background as your husband, for
example, or whoever helped develop this -- I think Mr. Friend, was
it, or somebody else -- could they do it, independent of you?
THE WITNESS: There's two separate issues. There's actually
the software technology that is fairly sophisticated. But
developing the list or the filters, I could do that. I mean
anyone without any technical background could develop the list.
Then they would need that technology to be able to identify those
sites that were trying to be accessed, in order to be able to
block t hem.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Did our questions elicit -- evoke any
additional questions from counsel? Because I -- we don't want --
MR. COPPOLINO: No, your Honor. Thank you.
MR. ENNIS: No, you Honor. May I ask your Honors if the
witness may be released?
JUDGE SLOVITER: If it's all right with them, sure.
MR. ENNIS: And since this -- I don't think the Government
needs the computer. It's her personal computer. May she take that
with her?
JUDGE SLOVITER: Yeah. I think that we'll -- it might be an
appropriate time to break, and you can take care of all these
matters.
JUDGE DALZELL: Will your next witness be Dr. Hoffman, or --
MR. HANSEN: Your Honor, we -- we would next like to call the
two witnesses that the Government does not wish to cross-examine,
Mr. Kuromiya and Ms. Warren, in the event the Court wishes to ask
any questions of them, so that we can release them, if the Court
--
JUDGE DALZELL: And Mr. Croneberger will be around tomorrow?
MR. HANSEN: Ms. Hoffman is here, Dr. Stayton is here, and as
I understand, Mr. Croneberger will be here tomorrow.
JUDGE DALZELL: He'll be here tomorrow. Okay.
MR. ENNIS: He's here now, actually.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Fine.
JUDGE SLOVITER: But will he be here tomorrow to --
MR. ENNIS: Yes, whenever -- with the Court's convenience.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yeah, because we -- I think we have some
questions. Okay.
(Recess taken from 2:55 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.)
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Court is now in session. Please be
seated.
MR. HANSEN: Good afternoon, your Honors. My name is
Christopher Hansen. I'm one of the lawyers representing the
plaintiffs in the ACLU case. Plaintiffs' next witness is Kiyoshi
Kuromiya, the director of the Critical Path AIDS project. The
Government has advised us that they have no desire to cross-
examine Mr. Kuromiya, so I would like to first move his
declaration into evidence. His declaration was signed on March
8th, 1996. It's been previously filed with the Court. I'd like
to move it into evidence for his direct testimony.
JUDGE SLOVITER: It's granted. Do you have any objection?
Before I grant it, we should hear. Does the Government have any
objection?
MS. RUSSOTTO: No, your Honor, we don't have any objection.
COURT CLERK: Could you identify yourself for the record?
MS. RUSSOTTO: Yes, I will. I'm Patricia Russotto. I
represent the Department of Justice as well.
Your Honor, we do not have any cross-examination for Mr.
Kuromiya this afternoon. We do not have any objection to having
his declaration admitted into evidence. However, we do reserve
the right to submit deposition testimony. This witness was
deposed over the weekend and we do have -- intend to admit or
present to the Court deposition excerpts. And we're satisfied
that those excerpts will sufficiently address the issues that Mr.
Kuromiya raises in his declaration.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Do the plaintiffs have any objection?
MR. HANSEN: We do not, your Honor, with the understanding
that we could submit alternative pages, if necessary, of the same
deposition.
JUDGE SLOVITER: I think the Federal Rules always so provide,
don't they?
MR. ENNIS: Your Honor --
MS. RUSSOTTO: The only other --
JUDGE SLOVITER: You do have an objection?
MR. ENNIS: I might, your Honor, because it creates a problem
for us. If they put in pages, particular portions of deposition
now, we might want to do some live redirect and we wouldn't know
what their pages are. If they could tell us those pages now, we
could make that judgment now.
JUDGE DALZELL: Ms. Russotto, could you maybe now give us
some idea of the areas or the paragraphs of his declaration that
these excerpts would rebut or somehow qualify?
MS. RUSSOTTO: Your Honor, I'm really not prepared to do that
this afternoon. We're going to be submitting the deposition
transcript to address -- to address the areas that have been
raised. I point out that the plaintiffs had the opportunity
during the deposition to do redirect testimony and that it was in
our view clear during the deposition process that we proceeded
with that process on the understanding that some of these
depositions would be admitted into evidence or would substitute
for actual live testimony during the hearing, and that the
plaintiffs did have the opportunity to do that kind of redirect
and did not do it.
MR. ENNIS: Your --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Is the Government finished with its position
on this so that we won't go back and forth. Okay.
Mr. Ennis?
MR. ENNIS: I don't mean to be raising a possible false
alarm.
JUDGE SLOVITER: No, go ahead.
MR. ENNIS: I think it will be perfectly acceptable from our
plaintiffs for Mr. Kuromiya to leave the stand and probably
whatever we want to put in, other portions of the deposition
transcript will probably be just fine.
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, okay, you understand that we may have
some questions now.
MR. ENNIS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: All right. So you're not going to ask any
questions now?
MS. RUSSOTTO: No, we're not. We would, however, reserve the
right to do redirect or recross, rather, in this case if the Court
-- depending on what the Court's questions are. And also I would
say that if the plaintiffs feel like we have submitted deposition
excerpts that they're not --that they don't believe are
representative of the entire deposition, they're certainly free to
submit their own excerpts as well.
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Sir, would you state and spell your name,
please?
THE WITNESS: My name is Kiyoshi Kuromiya. That's
K-I-Y-O-S-H-I, last name K-U-R-O-M-I-Y-A.
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Thank you. Would you please raise your
right hand?
KIYOSHI KUROMIYA, Sworn.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Judge Dalzell?
DIRECT EXAMINATION
JUDGE DALZELL: Critical Path Project, Incorporated, that's a
nonprofit entity?
THE WITNESS: No, we're a sub S corporation.
JUDGE DALZELL: A sub S, so it's a for-profit enterprise?
THE WITNESS: Actually we -- we work through a nonprofit
organization, but it's a partnership that we set up by very early
on.
JUDGE DALZELL: A partnership with whom?
THE WITNESS: An individual who is no longer around.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. And the Critical Path AIDS Project, is
that just a division or is that a sub 501(c)3 organization,
nonprofit tax exempt organization?
THE WITNESS: We work through AIDS Information Network of
Philadelphia who handle our financial affairs. We're a small
organization, one employing myself and one part-time technical
person.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. If you could look on page two,
paragraph six of your declaration, do you have it there?
THE WITNESS: I don't.
(Pause in proceedings.)
JUDGE DALZELL: I'm very curious to know, how exactly does
the technology work? How do you build up this access to, as you
say here, thousands of data bases that go through your Web page?
Could you just explain that to me?
THE WITNESS: Okay. We began in 1989 with a 24-hour AIDS
treatment hotline, specifically for persons with AIDS. And we felt
that we could provide the kinds of information that persons with
AIDS could not get from other sources. I am a person with AIDS
myself, and I am also a primary care provider.
We began in 1992 with a small computer bulletin board system.
We have about 1500 people registered under that system. We found
it was quite effective in getting information out, both prevention
and treatment information to individuals.
We also found it important in providing data that was not
easily accessible from other sources, such as full-text clinical
trials information and information on alternative treatments. And
we found that neither Government sources nor clinicians within the
community were able to provide that kind of information, so we
found it very useful.
From that point we began expanding the number of people who
were on our system, and in May of '95 we set up a Web site and
later last year we became an Internet service provider. We host a
number of Web pages through our system. We provide free Internet
access for both individuals and grass roots organizations in the
Philadelphia area who might not otherwise be able to access this
information.
JUDGE DALZELL: So what your Web page links do is they
provide the people who are interested in this site and the
information with a free access to all this information; is that
correct?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: And in addition to the information that you
physically assembled yourself, what I'm trying to get at is you
seem to have entered into a number of arrangements, thousands of
them, with institutions including research institutions, correct?
THE WITNESS: That's correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: How do you do that? I'm just wondering how
hard it is to do that and how you go about doing that.
THE WITNESS: It's very easy. For example, for someone that
wants to locate information at specific research institutions, we
might link to the biosciences database of links at Harvard
University. And there are many hundreds of links on that one
site. Through that we have access to research institutions all
over the world.
JUDGE DALZELL: And how do you --
THE WITNESS: For chemistry sites, we would access them
through UCLA.
JUDGE DALZELL: And how do you get the access? I mean how do
you physically do that? Do you write them, do you call them on
the telephone?
THE WITNESS: I write the HTML code and we include that
database or that set of links or single links or a particular
document, whatever it is, that's available on the Internet and
provide it for people who use our system.
JUDGE DALZELL: And you say here that you average at least in
the month from February 4 through March 4 of 1996 3,300 accesses
per day?
THE WITNESS: That's correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Now, since February 8th, 1996, when
President Clinton signed the law in question here, when he signed
that legislation?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Have you all changed anything in the way you
communicate information to users?
THE WITNESS: No. We're constantly updating our Web site,
but no, we haven't changed anything.
JUDGE DALZELL: And if this panel were to find that the law
was constitutional, okay, would you have to make any changes in
the way you operate?
THE WITNESS: Well, I'm not sure how to interpret that law.
I do not know what indecent means. I don't know what patently
offensive means in terms of providing life saving and life
promoting information to persons with AIDS or persons at high risk
for contracting AIDS, including teenagers.
JUDGE DALZELL: That is, people under 18?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: So, I don't think you've answered my
question. You don't know how you would change or you do know how
you'd change?
THE WITNESS: Well, my -- as a person with AIDS, first and
foremost is my mission to provide easily accessible, easy to
understand information for people who are either infected with
AIDS or at high risk for contracting AIDS. We see that it is a
growing situation. The White House issued last week a report on
the growing epidemic among young people in this country. We also
know that it's the leading cause of death for people between the
ages of 25 and 44 in this country and in other countries, and
particularly in minority communities and communities that I'm
interested in providing this information for.
JUDGE DALZELL: So do I interpret your answer as saying that
you will just take the risk that you'll be prosecuted, or will you
change something?
THE WITNESS: Well, I don't know how to interpret. I don't
know how this Court interprets the indecency and patently
offensive. I personally find this life-saving information. I
don't know how it could be interpreted otherwise.
JUDGE DALZELL: Fine. That's all I have.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: I have no questions.
JUDGE SLOVITER: I have only one. Did this White House
report provide any information as to the number of people who are
HIV positive below the age of 18 in this country?
THE WITNESS: Well, basically what we get from this report is
the fact that something like 25 percent of all the people infected
with HIV in this country which is approximately one million
people, although that may be undercounting somewhat. 25 percent
of those individuals were infected while they were very young,
either below the age of 18 or shortly thereafter.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Your statistics I thought in your affidavit
went up to 20 something, and I'm trying to, since our interest
here is in young people --
THE WITNESS: Well --
JUDGE SLOVITER: If you don't know, just please say you don't
know. I'm not trying to --
JUDGE DALZELL: It's paragraph 22.
THE WITNESS: Well, I --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Excuse me, let me finish the question. But
that was to the age of 20 and then you go on to the age of 15 to
24 throughout the world, and I'm really asking about our universe
here, which is this country and below the age of 18. And all I
want to know is do we have figures that are segregated that show
the number of people below that age who currently are infected
with -- who are HIV positive.
THE WITNESS: Yeah. We do have some information. I can
provide the Court with some of that information. On the other
hand, I must say that HIV is a disease that extends over a long
period of time. A person does not show any symptoms for something
between seven and ten years after infection. That's why I
provided the figures that extended up into the early 20s.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you very much. Have our questions
elicited any questions from counsel?
MS. RUSSOTTO: Yes, one or two, your Honor.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
BY MS. RUSSOTTO:
Q Good afternoon, Mr. Kuromiya. I just want to ask you a couple
of questions to pick up on some of the questions that the judges
have asked you here.
A Yes.
Q I believe you had been asked about how exactly your
organization links to other organizations. That's through a
hypertext link, correct?
A That's correct.
Q So that's something you would just click on. It comes up on
your screen as a highlighted, in a color, and you just click on
that --
A Yes.
Q -- and that takes you to another location, right?
A Yes.
Q And you write the HTML code yourself for those hot links?
A I do.
Q And you taught yourself to write HTML code, right?
A That's correct.
Q And that's something that it's your understanding is going to
become easier as new software comes out to help people write HTML
code, right?
A Probably.
Q You're aware that there is that software that's coming out,
though, right?
A There's a lot of software coming out making it easier and
easier, yes.
Q Let me ask you also about a statement in paragraph five of
your declaration. Do you have a copy of your declaration in front
of you?
A Yes.
Q Where you talk about your Web pages during the period from
February 4, 1996 to March 4, 1996 were accessed approximately
98,000 times average 3300 times per day. Does that tran -- are
you talking about 3300 hits there?
A Yes.
Q How are those measured?
A Those are measured when someone calls up under their screen a
document on our site or accesses our site from another site.
Q Okay.
MS. RUSSOTTO: Nothing further, your Honor.
MR. HANSEN: No further questions, your Honor.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you very much.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
JUDGE DALZELL: One other question, following up on a
question Mr. -- were you here this morning?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: That Mr. Baron was asking and Mr. Brenner.
When there was talk about encoding your URL with a self rating
system, did you hear that testimony?
THE WITNESS: Yes, I did.
JUDGE DALZELL: And to use the motion picture parlance, that
NC17, R, PG13, that sort of thing, okay? Let's just use that for
my hypothetical, all right? Would you agree that there's material
in your Web site that would be NC17?
THE WITNESS: No.
JUDGE DALZELL: So you would not -- if you were required to
self rate your system, you would not self rate it NC17?
THE WITNESS: No. Our material is designed for all ages and
it may be explicit, but it's information that's necessary to
protect oneself from contracting a sexually transmitted disease.
JUDGE DALZELL: That's what I'm getting at. You would not
want, affirmatively, you would not want to rate your Web page in
such a way that young people could not access it?
THE WITNESS: I would not want to deny young people access to
information that was necessary to protect them from infection from
a potentially fatal disease.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yes, that's what I'm getting at. So even if
somebody told you you should do that, you wouldn't do it.
THE WITNESS: I can only repeat what I said. I know the
difficulties of living with this disease. I've been infected for
something like 15 years, and have had full-blown AIDS by the CDC
definition since 1993. And yes, I would want to protect people
who are potentially going to contract HIV and we know that from
current Government statistics that two-thirds of all high school
students are sexually active. And so yes, we're providing the
information for people who are sexually active and are potentially
exposing themselves, maybe because of lack of information or the
lack of a source where they can get anonymously information that
they need to protect themselves.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay, thank you.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Just so I understand and I think we put on
the table what you're talking about that might potentially come --
that some people might think come within the statute are safe sex
practices. Is that really what we're talking about?
THE WITNESS: We're talking about safer sex practices and
descriptions of those practices and how to protect oneself from
HIV infection or infection from other sexually transmitted
diseases.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And that's the universe of what you think is
potentially at risk in the material for which you are the source?
THE WITNESS: Well, I don't -- someone might find material
that we find very important as being offensive to them. I have no
control over that. So that would --
JUDGE SLOVITER: But I'm just trying to find out what we're
talking about. And what we're talking about then are certain
kinds of sexual practices and maybe some body parts, and is that
the limit of what we're talking about?
THE WITNESS: That's correct. That's correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: The depiction of body parts?
THE WITNESS: Possibly.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you very much.
MR. HANSEN: Your Honor, if I might ask one follow-up
question based on the Court's question.
RECROSS-EXAMINATION
BY MR. HANSEN:
Q Mr. Kuromiya,
when your site discusses safer sex practices, what language do you
use to explain to people how to use those safer sex practices?
A We use language that they will understand. I think that this
may create a problem for some people, since people may not have
the education to understand clinical language. So we may use
street language, we may use colloquial language in describing the
-- what is high risk behavior and how to protect oneself.
MR. HANSEN: Thank you. Thank you, your Honor.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: One more question. I was just wondering
if you make any effort not to use colloquial language over the
years? Do you try in any way to explain the proper terminology?
THE WITNESS: My experience comes from --
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: I understand what you mean by street
language, and it's much easier to explain that way than by using
the technical terms, I fully understand that. But --
THE WITNESS: My experience comes from what I'm able to --
what communicates via my hotline. I have for over six years
answered something like 10 to 20 hotline calls from very concerned
individuals of varying ages --
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: No, I just asked simply the question do
you make any effort what the proper --
THE WITNESS: I use whatever language is appropriate to
communicate to that individual. And I don't go out of my way to
use street language.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: All right, I'm just curious. All right,
thank you.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you. Gentlemen, ladies? No. Thank
you very much.
(Witness excused.)
MS. BEESON: Good afternoon, your Honors. I am Ann Beeson
and I'm another of the attorneys for the ACLU plaintiffs in this
case. And we now call as our next witness Patricia Nell Warren.
We have been informed by the Government that they do not wish
to cross-examine Ms. Warren, and so we therefore offer into
evidence the affidavit which she signed on the 15th of March and
which was filed in this case on the 19th.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Is there any objection by the Government?
MS. RUSSOTTO: No, your Honor, this is basically the same
situation as with Mr. Kuromiya. We're prepared to accept the
declaration being entered into evidence, but subject to our
ability to submit deposition testimony.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And is there any objection to that by the
plaintiffs?
MR. COPPOLINO: No objection.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay, fine.
MS. BEESON: We now make her available for the Court to
question, if they wish.
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Good afternoon, ma'am. Would you please
state and spell your name for the record?
THE WITNESS: Patricia, P-A-T-R-I-C-I-A, Nell, N-E-L-L,
Warren, W-A-R-R-E-N.
PATRICIA NELL WARREN, Affirmed.
DIRECT EXAMINATION
JUDGE DALZELL: Ms. Warren, one thing I'm not clear about
with respect to Wildcat Press, you are -- you have an interest in
Wildcat Press, as I understand in your declaration?
THE WITNESS: A little bit of history, I am an author that
has published a number of books over the years and I recently made
a decision to go independent and to publish my own books instead
of relying on trade publishers. So Wildcat Press is my own company
co-owned with a business partner. I publish my own books, new
books, old books, getting them back in print. We will also
publish books by other people. It is what is referred to in the
trade as a small press.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Now, Wildcat Press as you say in your
declaration has a Web site, right?
THE WITNESS: That is correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: Now, your books, let's just talk about your
books. What do you have on that site, excerpts? I wasn't clear.
Or chapters or summaries or what about your books?
THE WITNESS: We do two things with the Web site. One, it's a
place where people can come, they can learn more about the
company, my books, what they're about. They can also buy books
directly off of the Web site through a credit card ordering
apparatus. So there are two excerpts, the first chapters from two
of my best-known books that are available for people to access and
read and possibly interest them in buying the books.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay, and how long are those excerpts?
THE WITNESS: They are -- consist of the entire first
chapters of the books, so they are like one long subpage.
JUDGE DALZELL: So I guess as the copyright owner at least of
those books you could make a decision, could you not, to put your
whole book on line?
THE WITNESS: I could.
JUDGE DALZELL: Would you ever do that?
THE WITNESS: If I thought it was a good idea, I definitely
could do that.
JUDGE DALZELL: All right. But at this point you're using
the on line service to sell books, correct?
THE WITNESS: Correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: You mention in your declaration that the
credit card company, as I understand it, charges a dollar service
fee --
THE WITNESS: That is correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: -- for processing. Is that for the
verification, as a fee for that, or what is that dollar?
THE WITNESS: That is the fee for the -- that we are charged
for each user who wants to log into that particular feature and
use their credit card. It's a secure ordering device. I believe
there are several on the market. This one is called First
Virtual, which they can use a MasterCard or Visa credit card. And
we pay a fee for them to use that each time it occurs.
JUDGE DALZELL: Were you here this morning?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: You may have heard a lot of colloquy about
verifying credit cards. At your Web site, can you verify on line
or do you have to go off line to verify?
THE WITNESS: I'm not a technical person, and I'm not
actually the technical person that runs this whole thing, so I
can't tell you exactly how it works, but it is handled by the
server that we operate off of, which is Southern California Gay
Wired, and they're the ones that process it. That's mostly what I
can tell you.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. So this server, Gay Wired, handles all
of that for your company?
THE WITNESS: That is correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: Another line of questions I have for you that
I'm very curious about, you say at paragraph 17 of your
declaration that you've helped create an on line magazine, an E-
zine as you call it called Youth Arts; is that correct?
THE WITNESS: That is correct.
JUDGE DALZELL: And you said that you've also created print
magazines, a print magazine called Campus Courier; is that
correct?
THE WITNESS: I assisted in creating that. Actually it never
came to fruition, but that was many years ago.
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, let me ask you this. This is what I'm
most curious about. Is it easier to start an E-zine than a print
magazine?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
JUDGE DALZELL: Why is that?
THE WITNESS: Because the material costs of putting out a
print magazine, standard print media, you're looking at all of the
costs of photography, and art and paper costs and printing costs
and so forth. It generally is much more expensive than the cost
of putting up a publication on line.
JUDGE DALZELL: And where is the E-zine posted? How do you
access it?
THE WITNESS: Through a URL.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Thank you.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Judge Buckwalter.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: I'm still looking through --
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. Is it accurate that your material
would be considered gay and lesbian literature, the material that
you authored? I gathered that from the declaration, is that
correct?
THE WITNESS: Are you asking about my personal writing?
JUDGE SLOVITER: Your personal books, yes.
THE WITNESS: Not all of my books, but most of what I'm known
for would be called gay literature.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And would that include also books like
Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms and some other books by
Truman Capote?
THE WITNESS: Well, let me -- I'd like to make sure I
understand your question you're asking.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Would that be considered gay and lesbian
literature?
THE WITNESS: I haven't read that particular book, but it has
been mentioned in that connection, as far as I remember.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And is it your understanding that literature
in that genre might be viewed as subject to the two provisions of
the statute that are at issue in this case?
THE WITNESS: I'm concerned about people in this country who
view the entire subject of writing about gay and lesbian life as
patently offensive. Their opinions and feelings go way beyond the
questions of the seven dirty words of the FCC, and I am concerned
that there could conceivably be complaints made on the basis that
the entire subject matter is patently offensive.
JUDGE SLOVITER: And at the moment to your knowledge is such
literature available to young people in public libraries, people
under 18?
THE WITNESS: Yes, it is.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: And you're concerned about patently
offensive, even with the extra language that's added in this
statute there? I mean it just doesn't say patently offensive, it
says patently offensive, sexual or excretory activities or organs.
Is that still a concern to you?
THE WITNESS: My concern is with how some individual or group
of individuals might choose to interpret that in the course of
bringing charges against me with the Justice Department.
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: Okay. I don't think I have any other
questions.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Have our questions elicited any questions
from counsel?
MS. RUSSOTTO: No, your Honor.
MR. HANSEN: No, your Honor.
JUDGE DALZELL: Thank you for coming up.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Thank you.
THE WITNESS: Thank you.
(Witness excused.)
MR. HANSEN: Your Honors, there are two additional witnesses
that we -- whose declarations we have proffered. We were advised
-- that is, Christine Soto and Hunter Allen. We were advised by
the Government that they neither wish to depose nor to cross-
examine either of those witnesses. They are both young people who
are members of Youth Arts News, the E-zine that Ms. Warren runs.
Because of their age we have not brought them to Philadelphia. We
can make them available if the Court wishes, but at this point I'd
like to move their declarations into evidence. The declarations
were previously filed. They were attested to on March 7, 1996.
JUDGE SLOVITER: We'll hear from the Government.
MS. RUSSOTTO: We have no objection, your Honor.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Then that will be admitted. Is that it?
JUDGE BUCKWALTER: I have no desire to have them here.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Okay. We have no desire to proceed with
them. Thank you. No questions from the Court.
MR. HANSEN: Thank you, your Honor. In that case, the
plaintiffs' next witness is Dr. William Stayton.
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Good afternoon. Will you please state and
spell your name for the record?
THE WITNESS: William --
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Will you please move over and stand close
to the mike?
THE WITNESS: William ...
MR. HANSEN: It appears we have one minor housekeeping
problem. If we might have just one moment, your Honors?
JUDGE SLOVITER: Of course.
(Pause in proceedings.)
MR. COPPOLINO: Your Honor, we would just note for the record
that the witness is being called out of order. We had been told a
different order, and we will not object, but we had prepared for a
different witness for this time, and now since we have the burden
to go forward with the cross-examination, we have to change our
preparation.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Let me just ask you, are you prepared to go
forward, or did you -- because I gather this witness is from
another city.
MR. HANSEN: This witness is from Philadelphia.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Oh, he's --
MR. HANSEN: He has a 4:15 class which I'm --
JUDGE SLOVITER: He has a 4:15 class --
MR. HANSEN: Or a 4:30 class which I'm trying to help him
with, if possible.
JUDGE DALZELL: Mr. Hansen and Mr. Ennis, in view of the
constraints on Dr. Stayton's time as well as Mr. Coppolino's
concerns, Mr. Croneberger is here, is he not?
MR. HANSEN: He is.
JUDGE DALZELL: And you said to us before we started that the
Government, at least at that time, had not intended to cross-
examine him. I certainly have some questions. I believe my
colleagues do. Could we use the time productively with Mr.
Croneberger?
MR. HANSEN: Mr. Croneberger is Mr. Ennis' witness, your
Honor. I'll let him respond.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay.
MR. ENNIS: Your Honor, that would be fine with the ALA
plaintiffs. But my understanding is the Government was expecting
the next witness to be Donna Hoffman. And I don't care --
JUDGE DALZELL: But she'll go on tomorrow, I mean, so the
Government surely isn't prejudiced by that.
MR. COPPOLINO: Well, that's fine. If the Court would prefer
Mr. Croneberger now, that's fine with us.
JUDGE DALZELL: Just so we use the time productively, that's
all.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Is that all right with Mr. Stayton, Dr.
Stayton?
MR. HANSEN: Well, I would like Dr. Stayton not to have to
come back tomorrow. I'd like to --
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, counsel is not prepared to cross-
examine him based on this.
MR. COPPOLINO: We don't object, we'll go forward.
JUDGE DALZELL: What's that?
MR. COPPOLINO: It's out of order, but we'd rather go forward
with Mr. Stayton now than any other --
JUDGE DALZELL: All right. Well, okay, fine. We're just
trying to be accommodating to you.
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Will you now state your name?
(Much laughter.)
JUDGE SLOVITER: Touche.
JUDGE DALZELL: Touche.
THE WITNESS: It is still William R. Stayton, S-T-A-Y-T-O-N.
Laughter.)
COURTROOM DEPUTY: And would you please raise your right
hand?
WILLIAM R. STAYTON, Sworn.
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Thank you. Please be seated.
MR. COPPOLINO: Your Honors, I move into evidence the
declaration of William R. Stayton, attested to on
March 14, 1996, and previously filed as his direct testimony.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Is there any objection by the Government?
MS. RUSSOTTO: No objection, your Honor, subject to cross-
examination, of course.
JUDGE DALZELL: Well, I have a question for Mr. Hansen. What
exactly -- I assume that Dr. Stayton is being offered as an expert
witness?
MR. HANSEN: That's correct, your Honor.
JUDGE DALZELL: And it's not exactly clear to me the precise
areas of expertise he's being offered for.
MR. HANSEN: He's being offered for the value, to testify
concerning the value of material about sex for minors.
JUDGE DALZELL: The value of material about sex --
MR. HANSEN: For minors.
JUDGE SLOVITER: Social utility, in other words?
MR. HANSEN: Yes, that's correct, your Honor.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. Now, having specified that, Ms.
Russotto, do you have any voir dire that you'd like to ask?
MS. RUSSOTTO: Not at this time, your Honor, although we
would ask some latitude to explore the bases for Mr. Stayton's
opinions about the availability and appropriateness of certain
sexually explicit material for minors.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay. But you don't object to him offering
opinions in this area of expertise?
MS. RUSSOTTO: No, I do not.
JUDGE DALZELL: Okay, fine. That's all we needed to know for
now. Of course you can ask those questions.
MR. HANSEN: Thank you, your Honor.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
BY MS. RUSSOTTO:
Q Good afternoon, Dr. Stayton.
A Good afternoon.
Q Dr. Stayton, you are a psychologist and sex therapist here in
the Philadelphia area; is that right?
A That is correct.
Q And your current practice includes about 20 clients a week; is
that right?
A That is correct.
Q And your practice is now almost exclusively adult couples; is
that correct?
A That is correct.
Q You have maybe one or two minors, right?
A That is correct.
Q But mostly adults.
A That is correct.
Q In preparation for your testimony here today, you have
reviewed the affidavits that have been filed by the plaintiffs in
the ACLU action; is that right?
A That's correct.
Q And I believe you've also reviewed some information from the
Web sites of two of the ACLU plaintiffs; is that correct?
A That's correct.
Q And those would be Stop Prison Rape, that's one?
A Yes.
Q And the Safer Sex Page?
A Yes.
Q From what you've read of the plaintiffs' materials, the
information that they've made available on the Internet covers a
variety of issues regarding human sexuality, doesn't it?
A Yes, it does.
Q For example, the Safer Sex Page includes information about
safer -- safe sex practices, right?
A Yes.
Q And it of course talks about sexual activities in that context
as well, correct?
A That's correct.
Q And these would include things like information about
conception, right?
A Yes.
Q Information about birth control?
A Yes.
Q Safer sex?
A Yes.
Q AIDS?
A Practices, mm-hmm.
Q Yes, safer sex practices, yes.
A Mm-hmm.
Q And the Stop Prisoner Rape page would contain information
about -- explicit information about prison rape, correct?
A That's correct.
Q And the Critical Path AIDS Project as we've heard from Mr.
Kuromiya contains information about AIDS as well, right?
A That's correct.
Q And you've reviewed all of those, correct?
A That's correct.
Q Now, in your view, these discussions of sex and sexuality that
we've been talking about, that's information that is valuable for
minors to have, correct?
A I believe so, yes.
Q And it's information that you believe is valuable because of
its educational value, right?
A Yes.
Q And you'd agree, wouldn't you, that it's important to provide
minors with accurate information about sex and sexuality, right?
A Right.
Q In fact, providing accurate information about sex and
sexuality can actually prevent minors from making bad choices
about those issues, right?
A That's correct.
Q So providing inaccurate information, inaccurate information
about sex and human sexuality, that could actually be harmful to
minors, couldn't it?
A Giving them inaccurate --
Q Giving them inaccurate information.
A Could not be helpful, right.
Q Right. Now, Dr. Stayton, you're familiar with Playboy
Magazine, aren't you?
A Yes.
Q And you're familiar with Penthouse, right?
A Yes.
Q And Hustler?
A Yes.
Q And you're aware that these magazines contain sexually
explicit images, mostly of women, correct?
A That's correct.
Q In your opinion, viewing these types of sexually explicit
pictures is not harmful to minors, right?
A I believe that's true.
Q But you'd still prefer that your children didn't see them,
right?
A Playboy and Penthouse and --
Q Yes.
A No, it doesn't matter to me.
Q It doesn't matter to you? Dr. Stayton, do you recall that I
took your deposition --
A Right.
Q -- on a Sunday afternoon, correct?
MS. RUSSOTTO: I'm going to approach with a copy.
JUDGE DALZELL: Yes.
BY MS. RUSSOTTO:
Q And would you turn to page 58 of that deposition, please?
A Mm-hmm.
Q Do you recall that we were discussing some films that you use
in your therapy class, correct? You recall that we were
discussing some films --
A Yes, yes.
Q And I had asked you whether or not -- and you had said that it
would be valuable to minors to show those types -- to show the
films in a -- I'm sorry, let me strike that.
I had asked you if it was valuable to show certain types of
sexually explicit films to minors, right?
A Yes.
Q And I had also asked you whether or not it was important that
those films be shown in an educational context, correct?
A Correct.
Q Okay. And I asked you, quote, and this is at the bottom of
page 58, "What if it were not shown in an educational kind of
context?" And you answered me, "Most often it is. Most often --
you know, kids get together and they show their magazines and that
stuff, and they show stuff I wouldn't want my kid to see, but they
see it. I would much rather it come in the context of my being
able to interpret it and talk about it and answer questions about
it. I think children often see material I would prefer my kids
not to see, but I don't have any control over that."
So this is material you would prefer your kids didn't see,
isn't it?
A There is material I would prefer them not to see. That's not
a blanket that I don't want them to see any of the material or the
material that you mentioned from like Playboy.
Q Dr. Stayton --
A Yes.
Q -- do you have a set of the defendant's exhibits at the desk?
They should be at your feet there, I'm sorry. Let me ask you, the
second volume, the one that should be marked 46 to 89.
A Okay.
MR. HANSEN: If I might, your Honor, plaintiffs have not been
supplied a copy with these exhibits.
MS. RUSSOTTO: Oh, I'm sorry.
BY MS. RUSSOTTO:
Q May I ask you to take a look at Defendant's Exhibits 70
through 77.
A Okay.
Q And you recall that -- well, take a look at them and let me
know when you've reviewed them.
A I've seen these.
Q Okay. You recall that these are the same photographs that we
talked about during your deposition on Sunday, correct?
A That's correct.
Q Okay. Now, you would agree, wouldn't you, that these are
images of nude women in a variety of sexually explicit poses,
correct?
A That's correct.
Q And you'd agree also, wouldn't you, that these images do not
depict a healthy view of women as healthy sexual beings, right?
A I don't know about the word "as healthy sexual beings." I
don't know anything about them --
Q Well, let me rephrase it then. You would agree, wouldn't you,
that these images don't depict a healthy view of women as sexual
beings, do you? Isn't that right?
A I think the women are often exploited, yes.
Q And you'd also agree that pictures like these reflect a
socialization process that use women as sex objects, right?
A They can, but it's only one part of all the input that they
get.
Q You would also agree, wouldn't you, that these sexually
suggestive images of women do not depict real life? They're not
representative of the real world.
A It depends upon whose world. If a person is -- this is all
they see, then it would be a part of their real world in terms of
what they viewed. It's not a part of their real world in terms of
I don't know what kind of input they get from other sources.
Q All right, well, let me go back to your deposition testimony
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A Sure.
Q -- on page 127. You recall that we were talking about these
very images. And I asked you what you meant, and you said that
this fits into the socialization process. I'm sorry, I'm at line
10 on 127.
A Right.
Q What do you mean, you said this