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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: apparent censorship of some newgroups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.011524.23156@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Keywords: big brother
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1jqmgvINN49t@kralizec.zeta.org.au> <pod.727918771@sour.sw.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:15:24 GMT
- Lines: 76
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- I'm enclosing the U.S. NSFNet policy.
-
- It doesn't say that everything must be available to everyone. It does,
- however, say NSFNet can be use used to "debate issues in a field or
- subfield of knowledge". In practice, discussions about sex are
- allowed. Indeed, my school, the University of Illinois not only
- receives alt.sex, but also Dr.June Reinisch's sex column from the
- Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana. As uptight as the U.S.
- is about sex, discussions of sex are not banned from our universities.
-
-
- - Carl
-
- ==============================================================
- [Source: anonymous ftp to nis.nsf.net in directory cise.]
-
- THE NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
-
- GENERAL PRINCIPLE:
-
- (1) NSFNET Backbone services are provided to support open research and
- education in and among US research and instructional institutions,
- plus research arms of for-profit firms when engaged in open
- scholarly communication and research. Use for other purposes is
- not acceptable.
-
- SPECIFICALLY ACCEPTABLE USES:
-
- (2) Communication with foreign researchers and educators in connection
- with research or instruction, as long as any network that the
- foreign user employs for such communication provides reciprocal
- access to US researchers and educators.
-
- (3) Communication and exchange for professional development, to
- maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or subfield of
- knowledge.
-
- (4) Use for disciplinary-society, university-association,
- government-advisory, or standards activities related to the user's
- research and instructional activities.
-
- (5) Use in applying for or administering grants or contracts for
- research or instruction, but not for other fundraising or public
- relations activities.
-
- (6) Any other administrative communications or activities in direct
- support of research and instruction.
-
- (7) Announcements of new products or services for use in research or
- instruction, but not advertising of any kind.
-
- (8) Any traffic originating from a network of another member agency of
- the Federal Networking Council if the traffic meets the acceptable
- use policy of that agency.
-
- (9) Communication incidental to otherwise acceptable use, except for
- illegal or specifically unacceptable use.
-
- UNACCEPTABLE USES:
-
- (10) Use for for-profit activities (consulting for pay, sales or
- administration of campus stores, sale of tickets to sports events,
- and so on) or use by for-profit institutions unless covered by the
- General Principle or as a specifically acceptable use.
-
- (11) Extensive use for private or personal business.
-
- This statement applies to use of the the NSFNET Backbone only. NSF
- expects that connecting networks will formulate their own use
- policies. The NSF Division of Networking and Communications Research
- and Infrastructure will resolve any questions about this Policy or its
- interpretation.
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-