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Article #2ONE YEAR AGO: What to do about the new Newsgroup Censorship Policy at ISU
From: David M Edsall
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:33
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:33
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In <1991Dec16.152546.14765@news.iastate.edu> i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ) writes: >>|> 1) The policy was not developed by the Comp Ctr committee which >>|> developed the original "open learning environment" policy. >>|> >>|> 2) The policy was brought to the Comp Ctr Newsgroup committee >>|> who did not approve it. >>|> >>|> 3) The policy was brought to the University Computation Advisory >>|> Committee (Computation Center Advisory Sub-Committee) who >>|> did not approve it. >> >> So who did approve it? >> >>-- >>Dick > Absolutely necessary information! Who drafted this plan? Who approved >it? If someone reading this knows but can't say directly because of >employment considerations, my phone number is 233 - 5164, the answering >machine (with my girlfriends voice on it, don't be fooled) will listen politely >to whatever you have to say :-) > I think the following steps ought to be taken: > 1. organizational meeting, I know most of you, but we need > a good (unmonitored) meeting about this :-) > 2. some sort of press, beyond the Daily, covering this censorship. > I know the nice AP lady here in town, I'm sure all of you > have similar ideas - "Censorship @ state university - page 3 > of Today section in the register" > 3. Identification of parties involved. I want to know who > picked the groups to be blocked, and I want to know who > approved this. > 4. Contact the Gay etc etc, whatever the acronym is this month, > and let them know that a.s.motss is going to be cut - > I'd say this is grounds for a discrimination suit. > 5. Start a student organization dedicated to the protection > of ISU students from impure influences ... and my choice > for first target is going to be removal of all copies of > the bible from the library - someone please track down > a list of the erotic parts (yes, really, I think some are > in the song of solomon). I mean really, if we're gonna > have censorship, lets get everything in one fell swoop, > right ;-) > Well, that'll do for a start. Looking forward to Tuesday :-) >-- > Neal i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu > "A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!" > - Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade >"Despite the sunrise, the darkness never goes from some men's eyes"
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Newsgroups: ia.newsgroups,ia.talk.politics,isu.cc.general,isu.cc.vincent,isu.newsgroups,isu.talk.misc,isu.talk.computer-fee,isu.talk.politics,alt.censorship,isu.talk.usenet-policy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!pv7411.vincent.iastate.edu!edsall From: edsall@iastate.edu (David M Edsall) Subject: ONE YEAR AGO: What to do about the new Newsgroup Censorship Policy at ISU Message-ID: <edsall.724631585@pv7411.vincent.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1991Dec15.163311.4917@news.iastate.edu> <1991Dec16.142003.10737@news.iastate.edu> <1991Dec16.152546.14765@news.iastate.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:33:05 GMT Lines: 63