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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [aus.aarnet] apparent censorship of some newgroups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.225041.21701@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: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:50:41 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- From: craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: apparent censorship of some newgroups
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:53:35 +1100
- Message-ID: <1jqmgvINN49t@kralizec.zeta.org.au>
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-
- This has probably already been thrashed out, but why is it that certain
- newsgroups are being prevented from reaching our shores?
-
- I don't need to mention the groups in question, but they relate to a certain
- topic that some bozos seem to regard as taboo, mentally degrading, and as
- 'polluting' the network.
-
- I have only one comment - this 'Big Brother' attitude of those who have control
- of AARnet should not be able to restrict the newsgroups that are available.
- As an underlying link to Internet, this automatically consigns AARnet
- administrators to follow Internet policy, which is that ALL information should
- be freely available to ALL users of the system. It's obvious that AARnet's
- admin people believe otherwise.
-
- The federal goverment already tries to control us enough. Now they're trying to
- condition us against reading newsgroups containing articles in socially
- sensitive topics. So what? This is supposed to be a democracy we live in.
- Perhaps the damn 'thought police' have infiltrated Canberra as well, we might as
- well live in a communist country if this sort of net-censoring continues.
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- Craig Dewick, Station Master, Possum Power Tank BBS. +612-544-1060 (ringback).
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- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
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