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Article #106Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Lawrence Lee
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 00:00
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Robert Radford (radfordr@inforamp.net) wrote: : You seem to miss the point that iStar are operating under the quite : reasonable assumption that the banned newsgroups are illegal under : existing Canadian law which applies to any sort of publication whether : electronic or paper. There is nothing new in the law. You are merely : noticing it now. I would ask you Robert why Usenet newsgroups are any more illegal than the content that can be achieved via. gopher, FTP, IRC, telnet, WWW... I think that your question of legality is a farce when iStar shows a blind eye to the exact same things found in the Usenet newsgroups. Is iStar taking this action on newsgroups because they are somehow liable in distributing Internet access? If so, they better close shop... I think that the willingness of iStar to hide their actions to be even more disturbing. If iStar found some telnet sites to be illegal, will they without notice just begin to remove access. -- +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Lawrence D. Lee | The debate is heating up, so come join | | lalee@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca | us in vrfa.general and vrfa.hot-topics | | Full Time CST BCIT (Sept '95) | The topic is censorship and the FreeNet | | Vancouver FreeNet Volunteer | so come stick in your point of view. | +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public From: lalee@vcn.bc.ca (Lawrence Lee) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/09 Message-ID: <4rs9m5$rf9@milo.vcn.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 167284494 distribution: inet references: <4rmsbp$5ur@insight.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <jbtoacf.-0707960850350001@ip93-106.tor.interlog.com> <4ro8na$du@news.intranet.ca> <radfordr-0807961957040001@ts39-13.tor.istar.ca> followup-to: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general organization: Vancouver CommunityNet newsgroups: inforamp.general,inforamp.support,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,can.legal,can.infohighway,tor.general,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.society.civil-liberty,ont.general