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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.185324.27572@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: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:53:24 GMT
- Lines: 38
-
- [A repost - Carl]
-
- From: newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <93012013612@monty.apana.org.au>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 15:13:52 +1030
-
- jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer) writes:
- > If the discussion of AARNet and its content ever hits shows like
- > Hinch, Current Affair or even 7:30 Report, we all know that the
- > 'outraged (not to mention recession-squeezed) taxpayer' routine
- > will be dragged out, leading to the government imposed 'quick fix'
- > to mollify the supposed 'outraged taxpayers'.
-
- The story has already hit the papers, in the form of a ten column-inch
- article in The Sunday Mail last year.
-
- There was no furore, no controversy, no followup story. It was just
- a dead issue.
-
- I believe it would be different if fourteen year-olds had access to
- AARNet, but in general they don't.
-
- Anyway, all that is beside the point. Banning something simply
- because the media might hear about it is abhorrent to me.
-
- - mark
- [ who doesn't get any binary groups at all, 'cos they're too
- expensive ]
-
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- Self-control: The ability to eat newton@monty.apana.org.au
- only one peanut. Mark Newton
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- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-