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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Need updates for "Banned Computer Material 1992"
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.211109.14171@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:11:09 GMT
- Lines: 80
-
- Banned Book Week is coming soon and I'd like create a second "Banned
- Computer Material" list. Part of that list will be updates from last
- year's list. If you can update me on the following incidents (at
- Boston U., U of Toledo, Western Washington U. U. of Washington, Iowa
- State U. (2), Penn State, U. of Texas, James Madison U.) please post
- or send me email.
-
- - Carl
-
- ====== excerpts from ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/banned.1991 ====
- Computer files at Boston University that anyone finds offensive or
- annoying -- The rules at Boston University prohibit a computer user
- from "making accessible offensive [or] annoying ... material".
- (cafv01n10)
-
- The alt.sex newsgroup at the University of Toledo
-
- More than a dozen newsgroups, including alt.sex, at Western Washington
- University -- They were removed from Western Washington University on
- the order of one person, the Vice Provost for "information and
- communication". Alt.sex remains at the University of Washington, but
- other newsgroups were removed right before a negative article was
- printed in the Seattle _Post_Intelligencer_. (cafv01n33, cafv01n36,
- cafv01n35, cafv01n41)
-
- Rude articles at Iowa State University -- On-line rudeness is
- prohibited at Iowa State. A student was reprimanded for posting a rude
- article to the net. (This policy may be under revision). (cafv01n38)
-
- The alt.sex.* hierarchy on PSUVM, Penn State's main general purpose
- computer -- (cafv01n34)
-
- Email or Netnews articles that "bring discredit to the University [of
- Texas] or the [Computer Science] Department." (cafv01n37)
-
- Offensive messages at the University of Newcastle -- (cafv01n39)
-
- Email containing offensive material at James Madison University -- (cafv01n39)
-
- Most on-line discussion of sex and drugs at Iowa State University --
- Iowa State University labels all newsgroup as either "limited list",
- "standard list", or "full list". This labeling is based on the name
- and description of each newsgroup and not on its actual content. The
- standard list excludes most discussion of sex and drugs. The plan is
- that ,starting January 6, 1991, users on public access machines will
- be restricted to the standard list. (See recent
- alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk articles.)
- ======================
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- banned.1991
- =================
- A list of computer material that was banned at universities during (or
- before) 1991. It summarizes incidents and policies at Ohio State U.,
- the U. of Illinois (two campuses), Case Western U., Boston U., U. of
- Waterloo, U. of Toledo, Western Washington U., Iowa State U.,
- Pennsylvania State U., U. of Texas, U. of Newcastle, James Madison U.,
- U. of Wisconsin, and others.
-
- =================
- =================
-
- These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/banned.1991
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom banned.1991
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-