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- From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
- Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.feminism,news.groups
- Subject: Re: soc.feminism editorial policy
- Followup-To: alt.censorship
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:26:41 GMT
- Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
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- Message-ID: <1k1bd1INN484@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- References: <C10Aqt.J9K@panix.com> <727433011snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz> <C1BGC7.Bur@panix.com>
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- In article <C1BGC7.Bur@panix.com> gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
- >A few years ago I worked at a
- >business that did not take the alt groups; when the
- >management decided to cut back on resources (mostly, the
- >phone bill) the talk and rec groups were removed as well.
- >That's real censorship -- certain articles are prevented
- >from appearing.
-
- Bullshit. A company has a right to decide how to use its resources.
- If it wants to, for instance, only get a comp.* feed, or not get a USENET
- feed at all, that's a business decision (allocation of resources), not
- censorship.
- --
- Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
-