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Legal/policy issues concerning news

#186
From: Gary Barnette
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:46
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Issue 1:

Does anyone know if any company has been sued over
the contents of news articles? Some people here have
a concern about the sexist and racist material found
in some news groups. So concerned that all but comp.*,
gnu.*, and news.* have been turned off until there is
a review by our legal department.

Issue 2:

Our company has a policy for plurlism and against racism and sexism. 
Some people think that to allow sexist and racist news articles
of this type on our systems is therefore against company policy
and should not be allowed. Has anyone else out there run into
the append contradiction?

Please direct you opinions/answers to the general question.
I am NOT for censorship of any kind. I'm just trying to learn 
what others have done so that I may be better informed to deal with
the problem. And it is a problem. We stand a chance of loosing
our entire news feed!

Gary Barnette
News/Systems Administrator
E-mail: gbarnet@uswnvg.com
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From: gbarnet@uswnvg.com (Gary Barnette)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Legal/policy issues concerning news
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Date: 13 Oct 92 17:46:48 GMT
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