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- Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
- Subject: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.085300.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au>
- From: ryanph@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:53:00 +1100
- Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation
- Nntp-Posting-Host: mrl.dsto.gov.au
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- Pornography available via Internet News!
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- The Internet newsgroup, alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, is just a forum for
- pornographic images to be exchanged worldwide.
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- Since pornography is demeaning to women, I believe the AarNet and any other
- Australian network, should not be subscribing to such rubbish.
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- Recently, images of nude women chained up and tied up have graced the pages of
- this 'news'group. This does not, in my opinion, fall within the usage
- guidelines of AarNet.
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- There are at least three reasons to remove this newsgroup and any others which
- are similarly demeaning to women:
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- 1) The images are pornographic, not 'erotic': consult any of your
- female colleagues for their opinions
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- 2) The images are largely _illegally_ scanned-in images from
- pornographic magazines (so that there is copyright infringement)
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- 3) The usage of these images is NOT one of the uses of AarNet that our
- employers want to be paying for
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- Other reasons to remove the group (and any similar groups):
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- * the scandal that would be attached to Aarnet and the Internet more
- generally if this were to reach the conventional media
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- * there are better things to spend multi-megabytes of storage space on
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- * women are badly enough represented on computer networks without
- further turning them away with the sexual harassment implicit in the
- promulgation of such pornographic images.
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- If you are not aware of what I am talking about, take a look at the newsgroup.
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- If you _are_ aware of this newsgroup and agree with me, please write or email
- your nearest Aarnet representative expressing your disgust at this 'news'group.
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- If you think that the newsgroup is 'harmless fun': see what your female
- colleagues, friends, wives, secretaries think ===== particularly in light of
- the fact that your employer is paying for it. Legally, it is a clear case of
- sexual harassment.
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- Philip Ryan
- DSTO Materials Researsh Laboratory
- Melbourne, Australia
- phone: (03) 246 8265
- fax : (03) 246 8999
- email: ryanph@mrl.dsto.gov.au
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- nb: I am _not_ talking from a moral 'high ground'. I am _not_ a card-carrying
- member of the Moral Majority. However, pornography generally is demeaning to
- women, and I believe that it is particularly poor in the present context.
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