The State : Phone Porn Fine Stands
A $600,000 fine levied against a San Jose firm accused of failing to prevent children from hearing obscene phone messages was reconfirmed by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington. The commission ordered Intercambio to pay up within a month or face criminal prosecution. Since its initial finding in July, 1988, the FCC said that Intercambio had offered nothing new to support the government’s contention that the company had violated federal regulations. The case stemmed from a mother’s complaint that her 16-year-old son was hearing pornographic messages from Intercambio and was seeing a psychiatrist after placing more than 280 calls to various dial-a-porn providers.
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