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In article <CnnHBy.DCn@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) writes:
>In article <1994Apr2.004348.598@sdg.dra.com>,  <sean@sdg.dra.com> wrote:
>
>>> to enable the empanelling of an unbiased jury.  If over 3/4 of Ontario
>>> hasn't heard or read the banned information, then, broken or not, such
>>> folks should be easy to find, and the ban has been a success.
>>
>>Well, the ban seems to have eliminated people rich enough to travel, or
>>well educated enough to access the net from serving on the jury.  Are we
>>seeing a society of information haves and have-nots being created?  Are
>>we satisfied with a ban that lets the "elite" learn the information, but
>>keeps the "common-folk" in the dark?
>
>That's ridiculous:  You don't have to be rich to cross the border; and
>being educated does not imply you use the net.  Anyone in Canada, rich
>or poor, can find out banned information if they want to -- the ban is
>leaking like a sieve -- what you seem not to understand is that the
>reason why 3/4 haven't done so is because they don't *care* to.
>
>I doubt that most Canadians on the net have bothered to read groups
>like alt.fan.karla-homolka or sought out ftp sites containing the
>banned information.  Even when stuff has been posted to soc.canada
>I think a lot of people probably just pressed N -- and even if they
>didn't, a majority of net users don't read a lot of newsgroups anyway.
>

I think you are wrong - but then making claims such as "most" are
rather difficult to persue, aren't they.  Do remember that uunet has
an archive of kh material because of the volume of requests.  Compuserve
had login instruction on how to retreive the Washington Post article
because of the volume of requests.  A large source of hardcopy of the
Internet articles came from universities who have easier ftp access --
at least amongst the people I know.  I also know a lot of people who
read the news to see the articles -- a boost to "net" awareness.
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Brian K. Jenkins                                       brian@bkj386.UUCP
Mississagua, Ontario Canada