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Article #63Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
From: Lawrence Lee
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
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Xanlithe (jay@inforamp.net) wrote: : 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. Let's go a little further, what if only a page was found to be illegal. Would the whole book have to bee removed? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure some magazine or book had to be manually edited (rip out a few pages). Am I correct? -- +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | 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: 10643c,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 115882,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid115882,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,c936b9b6252ee44d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,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: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: <4sej7e$arr@milo.vcn.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 168439481 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> <4sebvj$n6e@news.inforamp.net> 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