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Article #58Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Xanlithe
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <radfordr-0807961957040001@ts39-13.tor.istar.ca>, radfordr@inforamp.net says... > >In article <4ro8na$du@news.intranet.ca>, alaing@intranet.ca (Alain >Goyette) wrote: >> I for one think that the list they pulled was crap but, it is a sorry >> state we are getting into when others can decide for you what it is >> that you can do, think, like or dislike. > >You seem to miss the point that iStar are operating under the quite >reasonable assumption that the banned newsgroups are illegal under >existing Canadian law which applies to any sort of publication whether >electronic or paper. There is nothing new in the law. You are merely >noticing it now. > >-- >Robert Radford >V-P, Research & Development >Radhome Corporation You seem to miss the point that the NG's deleted are not illegal. Possibly what they contain might be illegal. In that case, censor what is actually illegal. A dozen books (however many you like) might be published under the title "How to Screw Your Sister". The title might suggest something illegal, but you would have to at least browse the contents before you would know for sure. Only those books that actually broke laws could be banned. The others would be legal, although obviously tasteless.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 12c2cc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid12c2cc,public X-Google-Thread: 13d6bc,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid13d6bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public From: jay@inforamp.net (Xanlithe) Subject: Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups Date: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: <4sebvj$n6e@news.inforamp.net> X-Deja-AN: 168423913 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> organization: Your Organization 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