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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: <9208141933.AA01637@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:33:16 GMT
- Approved: usenet@eff.org
- Lines: 33
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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <s_fuller.713811559@pv34b0.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:59:19 GMT
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- In <neuhaus.713788374@vier> neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern)) writes:
-
- >Hi.
-
- >I have read the ongoing discussion in this group with interest at
- >first. However, when I thought of it some more, I found that all of
- >the followups seem to have ignored one central issue:
-
- > If a University or company offers a news feed, it is offering a
- >*service*. Usenet is not yet a right, it's a privilege. A University
- >or company has every right to control how their computers are used.
- >After all, they belong to the University or company, not to the
- >students or employees. In analogy, a newsstand does not have to carry
-
- They belong to the university IF they are a private university.
- If we are talking about state funded schools, then the majority
- of the equipment belongs to the state, which is purchased by tax
- dollars. If I want a certain newsgroup and am denied it, am I
- getting my tax dollar's and tuition money's value back in a fair
- manor.
-
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- Steve Fuller =
- s_fuller@iastate.edu = No witty quote here yet...
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