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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: Waldenbooks fires staff for refusing to sell racist book!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.142213.31429@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:22:13 GMT
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- jsdph@acad3.alaska.edu (Dennis P. Harris) writes:
-
- [...]
- >i also got dumped on about defending employees who refuse to sell trash.
- [...]
-
- I perfer bookstores that let me decide what is and isn't trash.
- "Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or
- doctrinal disapproval."
-
- [...]
- >no, i don't believe in censorship. but when someone publishes something
- >obnoxious, i think that it *should* generate some discussion.
- > and i would urge
- >the publisher to publish something else instead.
- [...]
-
- So material that you consider obnoxious should be suppressed? You may
- not believe in censorship-proper, but you believe in something almost
- as bad.
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
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- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
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- =================
- library/bill-of-rights.ala
- =================
- The Library Bill of Rights from the American Library Association.
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- =================
- library/int-freedom.ala
- =================
- "Intellectual Freedom Statement"
-
- An interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library
- Bill of Rights"
-
- =================
- =================
-
- 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/library/bill-of-rights.ala
- pub/academic/library/int-freedom.ala
-
- 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):
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- send acad-freedom/library bill-of-rights.ala
- send acad-freedom/library int-freedom.ala
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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