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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.92Jul29175625@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 00:56:25 GMT
- References: <JBW.92Jul16195814@bigbird.bu.edu> <1992Jul17.212641.18596@rice.edu>
- <JBW.92Jul17231548@bigbird.bu.edu> <1992Jul21.142535.21786@digibd.com>
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- In-reply-to: merlyn@digibd.com's message of Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:25:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.142535.21786@digibd.com> merlyn@digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy) writes:
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- >If other students have humorous or otherwise irrelevant text in their
- >.plan files and have not been told to remove them, then you should document
- >this (print out a session where you get the time & date, and finger
- >a bunch of other students). This would show that the university is
- >telling you, and only you, to remove your .plan based on the content,
- >and not on disk space, or using .plan for what it is intended (does
- >anyone use .plan for what it is intended?) That would clearly make it a
- >first amendment case, and the U would almost certainly lose.
-
- I still don't see why. What's unconstitutional about our policy of
- setting an obsenity standard, for example? Our policy is that all
- finger info and public X-terminal screens should be of roughly PG-13
- offensiveness or less. We ask users to remove obscene or blatantly
- sexual .plan files. For example, last week a user had an "ansi art"
- .plan which repeatedly blasted a four-letter word acrss the screen.
- Prior to him, another user was asked to remove a crude sexual
- limerick. Both users complied without complaint... I don't think they
- really felt that strongly about it. I get complaints from professors
- when we allow these to remain.
- It seems to me that we are applying acommon "community standard"
- to this material.
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