Your profile will want to incorporate at least a single photograph. fifteen (Laughter.) 16 THE WITNESS: Well, I at times say as a joke, but 17 it is not truly a joke, that if you really want to comprehend eighteen the on-line entire world you require to get a 17 or 18-year-previous to sit 19 with you. nine A Yes. ten Q And at Page a hundred and sixty of your ebook you say that the Cyberion 11 City charter warns you when you enter that there are youngsters 12 there and educators and librarians and people getting fun, and 13 anyone who abuses the rule of polite communication is probable 14 to have his or her character taken out, right? To this day, we have disclosed bytes of consumer details to third functions, like governments. The forty plaintiffs sought $80 million in damages like distress, ostracization, trauma and attempted suicide. 2 MS. RUSSOTTO: May I have just a instant, your Honor? eleven BY MS. RUSSOTTO: twelve Q But if the members do violate these regulations that are 13 agreed on then they can be removed from the local community, 14 proper? sixteen Q And the rules of well mannered interaction in Cyberion City seventeen preclude making use of sexually-explicit language, correct?

23 A Yes. 24 Q And participants in Cyberion City can be taken out from the 25 local community for violating those people rules of the highway, ideal? 21 (Laughter.) 22 THE WITNESS: To my information, they are selected by 23 the customers of the neighborhood. 23 THE WITNESS: Well, it’s important for children who 24 for illustration may possibly be intrigued in C. S. Lewis to be capable to 25 create their have « Narnia. » 151 one Judge SLOVITER: But is this uniquely for little ones two or largely for little ones? There may well — and in simple fact I’m rather 14 sure there are areas wherever you can have entry to news 15 groups without having getting a password, you could have visitor — sixteen they could be open up to guest accounts, for example. 6 Judge DALZELL: Cyberion, for needs of the seven file, is C-y-b-e-r-i-o-n, not with an S, as some of us eight might have thought. 19 A Almost all MUD’s and MUSE’s have a visitor account that 20 does not call for a password. 25 A A guest could peek in and a guest could have 142 one discussions and take part, but that visitor would only be 2 designated as Guest one or Guest 2 and would not create an 3 id that had an ongoing identity.

23 Q So, a visitor would just enable you to peek in and see 24 what is heading on, suitable? 11 Q And the creator of a unique surroundings could application twelve it to exclude sure people today from that natural environment, ideal? seven Q And they would essentially software a area or a part of 8 the surroundings, is that appropriate? 10 Judge DALZELL: Right. 9 Judge DALZELL: No. You have to have to comprehend the 10 language and quite below — quite usually you need to have to eleven take part in conversations with minors to understand that. 16 Judge DALZELL: No issues from me. And I imagine that the distortion is 8 that you switch your computer system on and porno will come flooding 9 by the display — ten Judge BUCKWALTER: Okay, which is what you intended by 11 that. 16 Judge BUCKWALTER: — and I want to know what this 17 distortion is that I am — eighteen THE WITNESS: Well, do you — 19 Judge BUCKWALTER: And you have discussed to me what 20 you believed the distortion was, thank you. For most searches the results web pages have a distinctive construction. seventeen Q And the last question I have for you, in your reserve you 18 chat about a « digital convergence of media, » what do you necessarily mean 19 by that?

20 A Well, I mean that what we’re talking about below, the 21 Internet and bulletin-board techniques, are methods in which 22 substance that resides on desktops is despatched as a result of 23 conversation wires, we are seeing that voice and photos and 24 program, as well as words and phrases, can be converted to electronic sort twenty five and sent through wires. seventeen (Discussion held off the file.) 18 Judge BUCKWALTER: The one factor in your 19 declaration, sir, that is not definitely appropriate, but I wonder 20 what you intended by « among the the many points still left out of the 21 distorted common image of the Internet are people today from whom 22 the Net is a lifeline, » what did you imply by the distorted 23 pop — what is the distorted popular image? Modotti was grief-stricken, but inside a couple weeks she felt effectively ample that she resolved to stay and carry out the exhibition that Robo had prepared. 23 Judge SLOVITER: As I understand it, and I did not 24 right up until yesterday and I’m not confident I do, but what we are talking twenty five about in MUSE’s and MUD’s — and prevent me if I’m — or correct one hundred fifty one me, you should, if I’m incorrect — is that there is some kind of two interactive fantasy planet out there in which individuals three choose on new personalities or unique personalities, a bit four like a masquerade, and this permits them to examine with every five other or between just about every other whatsoever they want to, is that six appropriate?