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Article #200Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada
From: M MacKinnon
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:55
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:55
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Clay Shirky (clays@panix.com) wrote: : In <2n9bgs$jb0@ionews.io.org> digitar@ionews.io.org (digitar) writes: : >There is a TEMPORARY media ban until the JURY IS SELECTED. After : >that everything will be made public. : However, as news is such a context-specific thing a temproary ban of : sufficent length, as seems to be the case here, is effectively the : same as a news blackout. : >You don't know the facts and you've fallen into the American culture clap-trap : >of judging other people, their laws and their culture based on your own. : Its not citizens of Canada that we care about, its citizens of the : net. It will be a terrible thing if national sovereignty is recognized : as a legitimate force which can and should be allowed to censor : information, particularly if it sets a precedent of USEnet being : treated like a broadcast medium. : -- : Clay Shirky As was said already, national boundaries are but speed bumpas on the information superhighway. -----Mike B*B --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: f504b,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 1009fe,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1009fe,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d3,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d3,public X-Google-Thread: 1064b2,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1064b2,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 1159e4,70c8cc2ee9297cf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1159e4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-31 04:55:59 PST Newsgroups: alt.wired,can.legal,can.general,alt.pub-ban.homolka,alt.fan.karla-homolka,alt.censorship,soc.culture.canada,comp.org.eff.talk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.amherst.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!yqmw26 From: yqmw26@festival.ed.ac.uk (M MacKinnon) Subject: Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <2nct4c$5bs@panix.com> Message-ID: <CnJ59D.Au4@festival.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: alt.wired,can.legal,can.general,alt.pub-ban.homolka,alt.fan.karla-homolka,alt.censorship,soc.culture.canada,comp.org.eff.talk Organization: Edinburgh University Distribution: inet Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:55:59 GMT Lines: 32