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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: Re: putting lyrics to "Cop Killer" in .plan file
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.92Jul21002239@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 05:22:39 GMT
- References: <JBW.92Jul16195814@bigbird.bu.edu> <1992Jul17.212641.18596@rice.edu>
- <JBW.92Jul17231548@bigbird.bu.edu>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-Reply-To: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu's message of 18 Jul 92 04: 15:47 GMT
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- In article <JBW.92Jul17231548@bigbird.bu.edu> jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
-
- >First, congratulations, you seem to understand perfectly why I came here
- >asking for help! Second, I think you are talking about legal rights,
- >while I am seeking arguments that might invoke moral rights or some other
- >form of pressure on the university. Third, keep in mind that I am a
- >tuition and fee paying student. Fourth, under Massachusetts law, it turns
- >out that I may actually have the right.
-
- Around here, you have the right to say anything you want...providing
- you give people the *choice* of hearing it or not. To my mind, that
- means that users can say anything they please on private lists and in
- appropriate groups, but anything posted on the public bulletin areas,
- in the main msg areas, on X-terminals, *and in finger* must be roughly
- equivalent to PG-13.
-
- "finger" is the public directory service provided by this site. Users
- should be able to use finger without getting any sort of shock. On my
- site, I would ask you to replace that quote with a pointer to a
- publicly readable file, if you want to distribute a potentially
- offensive message. That way, you are free to say whatever you like,
- and users are free to CHOOSE to hear it or not.
- Freedom of speech does not equal guaranteed access to any means of
- communication at any time. It is the same thing with Usenet news. Post
- pornography on alt.sex.stories; keep the talk clean in misc.kids and
- comp.unix.programmer.
- Does this seem fair?
-
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