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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 19960323
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Byline: Dave Ivey Associated Press

Louisa May Alcott would have blushed.

At a court hearing Friday on a law banning "indecency" on the Internet, a computer search for "little" and "women" pointed to a World Wide Web site featuring "Hot Pictures of Naked Women."

During Justice Department lawyer Jason Baron's cross-examination of Donna Hoffman, a Vanderbilt marketing professor and expert on the commercialization of cyberspace, he asked how to find information for a book report on Alcott's "Little Women."

"I would probably search for 'little' plus 'women' plus ...

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