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Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada

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From: Clay Shirky
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 19:22
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In <CnDvL1.Jps@reptiles.org> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) writes:

>the net result is that netnews is being shutdown or censored.

>sysadmins are being forced to do things they don't want to do, or face
>possible reprecussions.

The people shutting down news are not the people helping to break the
ban. Why is your complaint with them and not with the people forcing the
sysadmins to do things they don't want to do. The coercion lies there,
not in information exporters.
-- 
Clay Shirky
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From: clays@panix.com (Clay Shirky)
Newsgroups: alt.wired,can.legal,can.general,alt.pub-ban.homolka,alt.fan.karla-homolka,alt.censorship,soc.culture.canada,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada
Date: 28 Mar 1994 14:22:44 -0500
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