🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3818@ixgch.uucp> chris@ixgch.uucp (Christoph Eckert) writes:
> sorry, but you're definitely WRONG. you people always forget that
> SWITCH is funded as a foundation by the swiss universities and therefore
> financed (!!!) by the federation, the cantons and the universities.
> SWITCH is really NO PRIVATE ORGANIZATION. i hope this is finally clear.

SWITCH seems to fear a scandal like the one that came out in Germany. They
probably think it's better to ban the involved newsgroups as a preventive
measure.

The way they did it (ie removing all groups containing "sex", even serious
discussion newsgroups) shows well that this was an administrative decision
made by people not really knowing the contents of the newsgroups.

> now this means:
> SWITCH has to carry what their sponsors tell them to carry and NOT what
> SWITCH thinks is good for its "customers". the whole mess is the result
> of SWITCH's perverted organization!

The "sponsors", as you wrote, receive money from the state, but decisions
are taken by politicians, who could be influenced by a large press campaign.
A sex-scandal would perhaps lead them to cut on research and education budgets.
Don't forget that our government already started to diminish credits in view
of the "record" deficits of 92-93.

Infact, I think that SWITCH decision was made too quickly, and without any
connection to the real problem : it is definitely not a good idea to banish
newsgroups without first asking for a general debate, particularly if there
is no sufficient legal basis.

We'll have to vote this year about legalizing soft pornography, won't we ?

Bye Ms...

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