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- From: gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage)
- Subject: Re: Aarnet should not be pornographic!
- Message-ID: <9300411.9737@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Basket Weavers, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec22.085300.1@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au> <1hk002INNa1j@zikzak.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:59:14 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1hk002INNa1j@zikzak.apana.org.au> zik@zikzak.apana.org.au (Michael Saleeba) writes:
- >ryanph@mrluv2.dsto.oz.au writes:
- >
- >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- >> Pornography available via Internet News!
- >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- [..]
- >I view any attempt by you to restrict what I
- >read as an infrigement of my personal freedom and quite immoral.
-
- The original author was suggesting a course of action which would
- only have undermined a particularly cozy dissemination path.
-
- >I should point out that I run a public access UNIX system.
-
- So you should be more than well enough aware that your "personal
- freedom" extends only as far as the equipment and services _you_
- pay for, or the government explicitly provides.
-
- > [..] AARNet
- >has a responsibility to the people they feed news to as well as the
- >more immediate interests of their members.
-
- Que? Do you have a contract with AARNet that states they will guarantee
- supply of all (or even _any_) of the alt.* newsgroups?
-
- [..]
- >Now people are missing out on
- >important information on pharmaceuticals and AARNet is wide open to
- >being sued by people who suffer through the lack of this information.
-
- I'm intrigued (and quite ignorant on this legal point). How can _not_
- allowing alt.drugs to be transported over AARNet links open them up
- to legal action? (And who the hell makes life and death decisions based
- on what they read in an alt.* group?) Is AARNet then going to be held liable
- for the _accuracy_ of the drug advice in alt.drugs?
-
- >Censorship cannot fail but be offensive to people.
-
- But so few people in our western society are truely censored.
- They just whinge that things aren't paid for by others.
-
- gja
-