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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Recent changes and additions to the CAF archive
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.015941.6814@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:59:41 GMT
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- Recent Changes to the
- Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive
-
- The CAF Archive is an electronic library of information about
- computers and academic freedom.
-
- It is available via anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4) in
- directory "pub/academic". It is also available via email. For
- information on email access send email to archive-server@eff.org. In
- the body of your note include the lines "help" and "index".
-
- For more information, to make contributions, or to report typos
- contract Carl Kadie (kadie@eff.org).
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/r-v-butler
- =================
- Excerpts from the precis judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in
- the case _R. v. Butler_. The February 1992 case refined "obscenity" in
- Canada.
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/umanitoba.ca
- =================
- q: What is going on at the Univeristy of Manitoba in Canada? What is
- the Canadian law on obscenity?
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/umanitoba.ca
- =================
- q: What is going on at the Univeristy of Manitoba in Canada? What is
- the Canadian law on obscenity?
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/utoronoto.ca
- =================
- An article from the University of Toronto _Bulletin_. It says, in
- part, "U of T is not planning to intercept or censor the international
- computer network, Internet, that carries among its thousands of files
- a couple that contain violent pornographic material."
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/waterloo.ca
- =================
- History of the U. of Waterloo (in Canada) ban of rec.humor.funny and
- alt.sex*. (They eventually restored the newsgroups.)
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/abstracts
- =================
- These are abstracts to the Computers and Academic Freedom News
- (CAF-news). Referenced issues of CAF-news are available via anonymous
- ftp to eff.org in directory "academic/news".
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/apr_12_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/apr_26_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/aug_02_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/aug_09_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/aug_16_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jul_05_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jul_12_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jul_19_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jul_26_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jun_07_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jun_14_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jun_21_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/jun_28_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/mar_15_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/mar_29_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/may_03_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/may_10_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/may_17_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/may_24_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/may_31_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/boucher,_viginia
- =================
- Review: has both the major US policies
-
- Score: 8 of 10
- bib:
- Boucher, Virginia, 1929-
- Interlibrary loan practices handbook / Virginia Boucher. Chicago :
- American Library Association, 1984.
- xii, 195 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 183-191.
- ISBN 0838932983 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $$20.00
- 1. Inter-library loans--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. American
- Library Association. II. Title.
- ocm10-185408
-
- Excerpt:
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/emord,_johnathan_w.2
- =================
- From _Freedom, Technology, and the First Amendment_ by Jonathan W.
- Emord, p.88:
-
- Summary of the since overturned Supreme Court decision that said that
- as owner the government could forbid speech on any public property.
-
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/new-books
- =================
- A bibliography of books newly added to the CAF book list.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/pernul,_g
- =================
- A Bibliography on Database Security
-
- G. Pernul, G. Luef
- Institute of Statistics & Computer Science
- University of Vienna
-
- Full text: available
-
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/price,_janet_r.3
- =================
- Excerpt from the ACLU Handbook _The Rights of Students_ 3rd Edition,
- 1988 about access to school facilities by students and outsiders. It
- says if use by students is not disruptive, use should be allowed.
- Also, "if any facility is made available to one group, the school may
- not then deny other groups the opportunity to use that facility."
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/price,_janet_r.4
- =================
- Summary of laws protecting high school students from unreasonable
- searches.
-
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/caf-statement
- =================
- This is an attempt to codify the application of academic freedom to
- academic computers. It reflects our seven months of on-line discussion
- about computers and academic freedom. It covers free expression, due
- process, privacy, and user participation.
-
- Comments and suggestions are very welcome (especially when posted to
- CAF-talk). All the documents referenced are available on-line.
- (Critiqued).
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/caf-statement.critique
- =================
- This is a critique of an attempt to codify the application of academic
- freedom to academic computers. It reflects our seven months of on-line
- discussion about computers and academic freedom. It covers free
- expression, due process, privacy, and user participation.
-
- Additional comments and suggestions are very welcome (especially when
- posted to CAF-talk). All the documents referenced are available
- on-line.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civics/constitution.us
- =================
- The Constitution of the United States
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civil-liberty/campaign-92.aclu
- =================
- The American Civil Liberties Union's planks for its "Campaign for the
- Bill of Rights '92". The planks are 1) a national campaign against
- bigotry and racism, 2) constitutional protection for a woman's right
- to choose, 3) a realistic approach to crime and punishment, 4) a Bill
- of Rights for all working people.
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/eff.rights
- =================
- An overview of the electronic frontier and the U.S Bill of Rights
-
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/archive
- =================
- q: What files are available from the Computers and Academic Freedom
- archive?
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/censorship-and-harassment
- =================
- q: Must/should universities ban material that some find offensive
- (from Netnews facilities, email, libraries, and student publications,
- etc) in order to comply with antiharassment laws?
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- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/email.policies
- =================
- q: Do any universities treat email and computer files as private?
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/email.privacy
- =================
- q: Can (should) my university monitor my email?
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/media.control
- =================
- q: Since freedom of the press belongs to those who own presses, a
- public university can do anything it wants with the media that it
- owns, right?
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/netnews.liability
- =================
- q: Does a University reduce its likely liability by screening Netnews
- for offensive articles and newsgroups?
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- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/netnews.reading
- =================
- q: Should my university remove (or restrict) Netnews newsgroups
- because some people find them offensive? If it doesn't have the
- resources to carry all newsgroups, how should newsgroups be selected?
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/netnews.writing
- =================
- q: Should my university allow students to post to Netnews?
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- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/policy
- =================
- q: What guidance is there for creating or evaluating a computer policy?
-
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/brandenberg-v-ohio
- =================
- In e-mail, a correspondent expressed the view that there was no right
- to speech that advocated violence. This response is based on U.S. law.
- It is a summary of the ACLU's Bill of Rights Briefing Paper #10:
- Freedom of Expression. The Supreme Court's standard is that speech may
- not be suppressed or punished unless it is intended to produce
- 'imminent lawless action' and it is 'likely to produce such action.'
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/cohen-v-california.1
- =================
- Definition of "fighting words"; why no right not to be offended
-
- The definition of fighting words from _Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire_
- and then _Cohen v. California_. Also, says quotes the Supreme Court
- saying that there is no universal right to not hear offensive
- expression.
-
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/court-decisions
- =================
- How to access Supreme Court decisions by anonymous ftp and WAIS. Also
- an index of available Supreme Court decisions.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/eff.legal
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- The index of directory ftp.eff.org:pub/EFF/papers/legal.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/iskcon-v-lee
- =================
- Supreme Court orders, summaries, and opinions for case 91-155 (_ISKCON
- v. Lee_) and 91-339 (_Lee v. ISKCON_).
-
- ISKCON is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
-
- The Court ruled that neither by tradition nor purpose can the airport
- terminals be decribed as public fora (forums). The Port Authority
- airports are thus nonpublic fora, and thus "reasonable" restrictions,
- such as a ban on solicitation, are Constitutional. A ban on literature
- distribution, however, is unreasonable.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/miller
- =================
- The Supreme Court's definition of obscenity (the so-called _Miller_
- test)
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/mills-v-bd-of-ed
- =================
- Summary from the ACLU's Handbook _The Right of Students_ 3rd Edition
- by Janet. R. Price, Alan H. Levine, and Eve Cary. p. 61. It says
- before you can be severely punished, you have a due process right to
- know the specific acts you are charged with committing and the
- specific rules that those acts violate.
-
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/naacp_v_alabama
- =================
- A short Netnews article by attorney Mike Godwin about anonymity.
-
- "... [In] NAACP v. Alabama, 1958, [...] the Supreme Court held it
- unconstitutional for Alabama state government to require the NAACP to
- disclose its membership list..."
-
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/perry-v-perry
- =================
- Comments from the ACLU Handbook _The Rights of _Teachers_. It says
- that campus mail systems (and other school facilities) can be limited
- public forums. (Perry v. Perry was about an interschool mail system.
- It was one of the cases that defined the Public Forum Doctrine.)
-
- Also, a paraphrase from an ACLU handbook _The Rights of Teachers_. It
- says that generally, speech, if otherwise shielded from punishment by
- the First Amendment, does not lose that protection because its tone is
- sharp.
-
- Also, from p. 92, it says that there are legal limits to the oaths a
- (public) school can ask its teachers to sign. [Some of these same
- limits might apply to what a school can ask a user to sign as a
- condition of getting (or keeping) a computer account.]
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/r-v-butler.ms
- =================
- Information on the Canadian definition of obscenity from _Ms._
- magazine.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/rav-v-st-paul.1
- =================
- The Supreme Court's _R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul_ decision about hate crimes.
-
- The Court overturned St. Paul's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance, which
- prohibits the display of a symbol which one knows or has reason to
- know "arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of
- race, color, creed, religion or gender."
-
- Included: summary, majority opinion, 3 concurring opinions.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/rico-porn
- =================
- Short excerpt from a newspaper story about a court decision. Also a
- full newspaper story on a related case. In the first case the judge
- wrote that the payoff in discouraging pornography through sweeping
- forfeitures "does not justify the additional curtailment of
- constitutionally protected, sexually explicit speech." The second
- judge ruled the opposite. The Supreme Court has agreed to decide one
- way or the other.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/san-diego-committee-v-gov-bd
- =================
- Excerpts from San Diego Committee v. Governing Bd., 790 F.2d 1471. A
- decision by an appellate court that applied the Supreme Court's Public
- Forum Doctrine (to a school newspaper).
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/search.berkeley
- =================
- Information and references to more information about an judge-ordered
- email search at the U. of California at Berkeley.
-
- Relates to: Buckley amendement/Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act/FERPA
-
-
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/tinker_v_des_moines
- =================
- Excerpt from the ACLU Handbook _The Rights of Students_ (3rd edition)
- by Janet R. Price, Alan H. Levine, and Eve Cary. It says that school
- cannot prohibit students from handing literature such as underground
- newspapers on school property.
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n12
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n13
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n14
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n15
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n16
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n17
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n18
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n19
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n20
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n21
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n22
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n23
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n24
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n25
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n26
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n27
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n29
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n30
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n31
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n32
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/december_1991
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/february_1992
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- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/netnews.uwm.edu
- =================
- These are the network policy resolutions developed by the Computer
- Policy Committee at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The
- resolutions were approved by the Committee and forwarded to the
- Chancellor.
-
- They say (to paraphrase) 1) Netnews is important 2) No restrictions
- should be imposed without wide consultation 3) The principles of
- intellectual freedom developed for university libraries apply to
- Netnews material 4) The principles of intellectual freedom developed
- for publication in traditional media apply to computer media.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/nsf
- =================
- The NSFNET backbone services acceptable use policy
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/rice.edu
- =================
- Computer policies for Rice University, especially Owlnet. (Rice is a
- private University in Houston, Texas.) Interesting features include a
- Sys Admin Statement of Ethics and student committee that advises on
- policy and handles some of the discipline.
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/uiuc.edu
- =================
- This is the University of Illinois's Interim E-Mail and Computer File
- Privacy Policy. It says that "network and system administrators are
- expected to treat the contents of electronic files as private and
- confidential." and "Any inspection of electronic files, and any action
- based upon such inspection, will be governed by all applicable U. S.
- and Illinois laws and by University policies."
-
- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/umanitoba.ca.critique
- =================
- An open letter from Brad Templeton to the U. of Manitoba arguing against their
- newsgroup ban.
-
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- =================
- ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/umanitoba.ca
- =================
- q: What is going on at the Univeristy of Manitoba in Canada? What is
- the Canadian law on obscenity?
-
- =================
- =================
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-