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- From: kadie@EFF.ORG ((Carl M. Kadie))
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cwis-l
- Subject: Re: Banned Computer Material 1992
- Message-ID: <1992Oct11.224029.11532@eff.org>
- Date: 11 Oct 92 22:40:29 GMT
- References: <199210102149.AA02334@eff.org>
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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-
- BUNTON@UTSW.bitnet writes:
-
- [...]
- >In any question of intellectual freedom and first amendment
- >considerations, the only area which ultimately holds weight is what
- >the law allows and provides, regardless of what a professional
- >organization may hold as their opinion.
- [...]
-
- I disagree. The law gives very little guidance on these matters. (Most
- of the bans in the List were legal. The First Amendment doesn't apply
- to private schools or non-U.S. schools). Yet, even without direction
- from law, policies (either implicit or explicit) will still be made --
- usually by professionals -- I hope, by professionals who give weight
- to professional standards and both legal and *moral* arguments.
-
- - Carl
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-