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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.074705.17822@eff.org>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,aus.aarnet
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:47:05 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- From: ggr@koonda.acci.com.au (Greg Rose)
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <9300417.15797@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:12:46 GMT
-
- [various talk about deleting pornographic material glossed over]
-
- >i.e. basically do they meet the AARNet guidelines for acceptable use. If
- >the answer is no, then they should be eliminated.
-
- I think it would be great to get rid of all the stuff that doesn't meet
- the AARNet or NSFnet guidelines. Then there might be enough pressure
- created to get the guidelines changed or removed entirely. Then we
- could go back to using peer pressure to make the network run the right
- way. (You didn't know about peer pressure? Post a message about
- deleting pornography to, say, talk.rape, and see what happens. (No,
- don't tell me that rape and pornography are not the same thing, as
- that is not the point -- you can't possibly justify deleting one and
- not the other -- anyway, the point is that your incoming mailbox
- traffic (both for and against) (Do you like nested parentheses? (Shut
- up!)) might well get your network feed stopped.))
-
- Personally, I think that the news network is a whole new social
- phenomenon, and it is way too early to start imposing older types of
- constraints on it. The WHOLE DAMN THING is simply a BIG experiment,
- and in my opinion meets the guidelines admirably, except that
- commercial traffic is still excluded (but then, that is a problem with
- the experiment, not the guidelines).
- --
- Greg Rose Australian Computing and Communications Institute
- ggr@acci.com.au +61 18 174 842
- `Use of the standard phrase "HIJACKED" may be inadvisable' -- CAA
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-