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From: Jane Howard
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00

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Vera Britto wrote this on  25 Oct

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>I believe this will be a major conflict that will only grow
>in the future. (the conflict i'm speaking of is who gets to control
>the traffic of online info, who gets to invade privacy, etc.).
>spamming is only a small portion of the bigger picture.
>
>related to the bigger picture, i think it's silly to worry only about
>goverment censorship/control
>when corporate censorship or control of internet and media
>will lead to even less possibilities of defense from from
>the public.
>
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I wholeheartedly agree with your points, the degree of freedom enjoyed on
the net is dependent upon diversity.  I recently read about a guy who set
up a homepage called "Gays who love Lycra".  He was using work computers
etc and lost his job.  You might have thought it was because the University
didn't like the usage of their eqipment but as it turned out the university
was threatened with a law suit by Du Pont.  They thoght the usage of their
trade label was 'inappropriate'.  It is this type of censorship that I
think is moe insidious and as Vera said more controlling than Government
control might be.

Here's to continual freedom on the internet!!
Jane

Jane Howard
Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research
Telephone: 03-9282-2209
Fax:       03-9282-2100
email: howard@mbcmr.unimelb.edu.au
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