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- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!eff-gate!usenet
- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208132141.AA03047@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:41:57 GMT
- Approved: usenet@eff.org
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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- From: bohrer@mcc.com (Bill Bohrer)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.210650.16240@mcc.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:06:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.171742.15946@pony.Ingres.COM> sergio@Ingres.COM (Sergio L Aponte) writes:
- > Another question is how "censorship" of a particular group solves
- > the problem.
- >
- > After all, if enough sites ban a pictures group, won't the pictures
- > start showing up somewhere else? Does eliminating a group that has
- > an ofensive "charter" aliminates the questionable articles off your
- > feed? NOT!
- >
- > In truth, I think the issue will come up more and more. With the
- > "sexual harrasement" (sp?) focus, many companies/universities might not
- > want to be involved with questionable groups, deciding to drop it vs
- > entering a long argument about it. After all, if ONE person finds it
- > offensive, no matter if it is rec.humor, it is cause enough for a
- > "harrasement" (at least I am consistent on the spelling!) acusation.
- >--
-
- It's not legally harrassment because no one is forcing anyone to read
- these groups.
-
- And by the way, Mount Holyoke is a small WOMEN'S college in
- Massachusetts; Why DON'T you just drop a.b.e.p?? I doubt there are
- that many women interested in this group, which is reason enough to
- drop a group, rather than because the NEWS-ADMIN finds it
- objectionable and makes up some stupid excuse that he's protectin
- COPYRIGHT ownership for christ sake.
-
- --
- Certainly these are my own opinions. I WISH they were my
- employer's as well...
- --
- *
-