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In article <1992Oct9.185121.12205@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
>In <1992Oct9.010021.18858@eff.org> kadie@eff.org writes:
>
>>  Question [inspired by an email message]:
>>  
>>  What should sys admins do about nude pictures and displays of nude
>>  pictures in public terminal rooms? Is a special rule banning such
>>  pictures and/or displays needed?
>
>This is from our (Uni Karlsruhe Comp. Center) HP Workstation Manual:
>(note that other departments have policies not that restrictive)
>
>"Use of the workstations not related to scientific research and
>education, especially playing games and the abuse of graphic displays
>for displaying non-work-related pictures, is prohibited. This is to
>explicitly notify you that abuse can result in account revocation."
>
This is similar to the case where all you have is vt100s, so that you
can't create offensive images (at least, not without creativity and
effort, I'm sure I know people who could).  In this case, all images
not used for actual research and education are banned, which includes
images both innocuous and offensive.

Do you have any plans for when this doesn't work?  Right now, I have
four large and four small windows on my Sun, most of which are devoted
to my academic work (all but the one I'm running news in, in fact).
As a backdrop, I have an image that some might find faintly subversive.
There's no obvious reason why I couldn't have one that some would find
sexually offensive.  This problem could affect any workstation permitting
backdrops, no matter how strict the rules on usage are.

The response in this Computer Science department to the display of nudes
was to inform people that display of these images in public labs etc.
could be considered a form of sexual harassment, which is against both
state law and the student conduct code.  I think this is reasonable:
ban the action, not the potentiality, and let the users be responsible
(morally and legally) for their own actions.

DHT

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