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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!kadie
- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: putting lyrics to "Cop Killer" in .plan file
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.153530.24912@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <JBW.92Jul16195814@bigbird.bu.edu> <1992Jul17.212641.18596@rice.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:35:30 GMT
- Lines: 104
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- In article <mumble>, jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
- [...]
- > I recently put the lyrics to "Cop Killer" by Ice-T in my .plan file so
- > that it shows up when someone else does "finger jbw@cs.bu.edu".
- [...]
- > I am seeking arguments to use against a possible attempt to censor me.
- [...]
-
- jaw@is.rice.edu (Joseph A. Watters) writes:
-
- >Here's where you need to be careful. There is an important distinction
- >to be made in your case. You do have the right to personal expression
- >as delineated in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. You
- >*do not* have the right to demand that someone else supply you a venue
- >for that expression.
- [...]
-
- Depends. The First Amendment is not the only document that protects
- free speech. The student code (and even the computer code) at some
- universities does to. These are contractual rights as contrasted with
- the First Amendment's constitutional rights.
-
- Get a copy of your student code and see what your contractual rights
- are.
-
- As a student, many believe you also have a moral right to free
- expression. This is outlined in documents such as the Joint Statement
- on Rights and Freedoms of Students.
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- student.freedoms
- =================
- Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students -- This is the main
- statement on student academic freedom.
-
- =================
- law/constraints.contractual
- =================
- Comments from _A Practical Guide to Legal Issues Affecting College
- Teachers_. Explains that University Code is part of the contract
- between the student and school. The University can be liable for a
- breach of the contract (i.e. for not following its own rules).
-
- =================
- policies/bostonu.edu
- =================
- Ethics policy for Boston University Information Technology
- (Critiqued)
-
- =================
- policies/bostonu.edu.critique
- =================
- Critique of the ethics policy for Boston University Information Technology
-
- Summary: 'In the name of protecting privacy, the policy attacks
- privacy. It says the University has the power to "without notice, ...
- inspect ... any data [or] file". It imposes speech restrict[ion]s that
- would be ridiculed if applied to the campus as a whole. It says the
- user may not "mak[e] accessible offensive [or] annoying material"'
-
- =================
- banned.1991
- =================
- A list of computer material that was banned at universities during (or
- before) 1991. It summarizes incidents and policies at Ohio State U.,
- the U. of Illinois (two campuses), Case Western U., Boston U., U. of
- Waterloo, U. of Toledo, Western Washington U., Iowa State U.,
- Pennsylvania State U., U. of Texas, U. of Newcastle, James Madison U.,
- U. of Wisconsin, and others.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/student.freedoms
- pub/academic/law/constraints.contractual
- pub/academic/policies/bostonu.edu
- pub/academic/policies/bostonu.edu.critique
- pub/academic/banned.1991
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom student.freedoms
- send acad-freedom/law constraints.contractual
- send acad-freedom/policies bostonu.edu
- send acad-freedom/policies bostonu.edu.critique
- send acad-freedom banned.1991
-
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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