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- From: bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,misc.legal,alt.censorship
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.192347.21686@ludd.luth.se>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:23:47 GMT
- References: <BsxH08.GE8@mtholyoke.edu> <1992Aug13.180458.9340@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Lule} H|gskolas datorf|rening ( Ludd )
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- I think this idea of closing newgroups because they carry illegal material is
- a bit strange. It's not the newsgroup that's at fault. If it's pictures, they
- can very well be posted somewhere else, or be spread through mail (which
- I believe already happens). No one (I think) would carry the idea of closing
- a road because people drive too fast, or would anyone? If illegal material
- is posted, sue the poster, don't shut the distribution channel.
- _
- /Bjorn.
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- S-951 61 Lulea Natl:0920-22 68 70 |seriously expect Me, a student, to carry
- Sweden << space for rent >>|the official voice of the University?
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