Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 15, 1990 TAG: 9006150388
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short
The rules say that dial-a-porn companies must require either credit card payments, access codes or scrambling; that they must notify phone companies of the adult service, and that the calls must show up on customers' phone bills.
Phone companies, where possible, must block access to the adult services unless a customer requests the service.
The rules are designed to comply with a 1989 Supreme Court ruling that said consenting adults may have access to indecent commercial sex messages by telephone.
In its dial-a-porn decision, the commission readopted rules it had imposed in 1987. Federal law at that time said sex messages could be transmitted to consenting adults as long as dial-a-porn providers complied with FCC rules.
- Associated Press
by CNB