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gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage) writes:

[...]
>The govt may censor a particular "newsfeed" (TV, public video
>libraries, etc) - but I'm still able to get almost any movie direct
>from the source on tape, no? So, no I'm not really censored.
[...]

At least in the opinion of the American Library Association *any* type
of official restriction motivated by "partisan or doctrinal
disapproval" is censorship.

- Carl

p.s. If anyone has any Australian academic or intellectual freedom
documents on-line, please send them to me.

ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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library/bill-of-rights.ala
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* Library Bill of Rights (ALA)

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library/diversity.ala
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* Diversity in Collection Development (ALA)

An interpretation by the American Library Association of the "Library
Bill of Rights"

It says that collections should be inclusive, not exclusive. And that
materials should cover the needs and interest of all patrons. "This
includes materials that reflect political, economic, religious,
social, minority, and sexual issues."

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library/censorship.def.ala
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* Definition of "Censorship" and Related Terms (ALA)

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caf
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* About the CAF mailing lists (and newsgroups)

A description of the comp-academic-freedom-talk mailing list. It is a
free-forum for the discussion of questions such as: How should general
principles of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom
to read, due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers
and networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can
the principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and
networks be defended?

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If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
   gopher gopher.eff.org

These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/library/bill-of-rights.ala
  pub/academic/library/diversity.ala
  pub/academic/library/censorship.def.ala
  pub/academic/caf

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/library bill-of-rights.ala
send acad-freedom/library diversity.ala
send acad-freedom/library censorship.def.ala
send acad-freedom caf

-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
 =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =