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Article #238Re: Censorship from the University of Manitoba
From: Seth Breidbart
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00
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In article <33b9bf1c.713192007@news.portal.ca>, Karl Pollak <kpollak@nospam.com> wrote: >aldham@wimsey.com (Danny Aldham) wrote: >>Bruce Allen (osiris@!sympatico.ca) wrote: >>: If an intelligent, well-reasoned, statement providing the case against >>: royalty, posted in a reasonable number of groups simultaneously, were to be >>: removed soley for its content, then that would be censorship. >>: When "FUCK THE QUEEN" gets dropped, it is indeed a cleanup. >>: Nothing more. >>So when a message is cancelled because you don't like the title, >>that is OK? >No Danny. When the title contravenes the Criminal Code of Canada and >refers to the Head of State in obscene language, then it is perfactly >in order to cancel such a message. It is perfectly in order to cancel the messge _from your site_. The message does not contravene any relevant critical code here, and referring to our Head of State in obscene language is a national passtime. If you continue to cancel other people's articles globally because they are illegal where you are, then you are going to find that the rest of Usenet does not want to speak to you. Of course, you'd have no objection to the cancellation of any article that might be illegal in, say, Iran, would you? Seth
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb708,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gidfb708,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 113d91,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid113d91,public X-Google-Thread: 10ea42,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid10ea42,public X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gidf7b9c,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: f67a2,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gidf67a2,public X-Google-Thread: 11405e,76e88c6557ffbaf X-Google-Attributes: gid11405e,public From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) Subject: Re: Censorship from the University of Manitoba Date: 1997/07/02 Message-ID: <5pe8uv$9sk@panix3.panix.com> X-Deja-AN: 254118748 References: <5p9uvn$8m0$1@hendrix.postino.com> <01bc865a$ed59df80$78e4acce@culeist> <5pbrqb$6qd@wolfe.wimsey.com> <33b9bf1c.713192007@news.portal.ca> Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless Newsgroups: man.general,nf.general,nf.nlnet.general,ns.general,pei.general,bc.general,bc.politics,van.general,ott.general,yk.general,nwt.test,uk.politics,uk.politics.constitution,uk.politics.electoral,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test55 (26 Feb 97)