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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074652.17779@eff.org>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,aus.aarnet
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:46:52 GMT
- Lines: 54
-
- [A repost - Carl]
-
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- From: gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage)
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <9300411.9737@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:59:14 GMT
-
- In article <1hk002INNa1j@zikzak.apana.org.au> zik@zikzak.apana.org.au (Michael Saleeba) writes:
- >ryanph@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au writes:
- >
- >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- >> Pornography available via Internet News!
- >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- [..]
- >I view any attempt by you to restrict what I
- >read as an infrigement of my personal freedom and quite immoral.
-
- The original author was suggesting a course of action which would
- only have undermined a particularly cozy dissemination path.
-
- >I should point out that I run a public access UNIX system.
-
- So you should be more than well enough aware that your "personal
- freedom" extends only as far as the equipment and services _you_
- pay for, or the government explicitly provides.
-
- > [..] AARNet
- >has a responsibility to the people they feed news to as well as the
- >more immediate interests of their members.
-
- Que? Do you have a contract with AARNet that states they will guarantee
- supply of all (or even _any_) of the alt.* newsgroups?
-
- [..]
- >Now people are missing out on
- >important information on pharmaceuticals and AARNet is wide open to
- >being sued by people who suffer through the lack of this information.
-
- I'm intrigued (and quite ignorant on this legal point). How can _not_
- allowing alt.drugs to be transported over AARNet links open them up
- to legal action? (And who the hell makes life and death decisions based
- on what they read in an alt.* group?) Is AARNet then going to be held liable
- for the _accuracy_ of the drug advice in alt.drugs?
-
- >Censorship cannot fail but be offensive to people.
-
- But so few people in our western society are truely censored.
- They just whinge that things aren't paid for by others.
-
- gja
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-