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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:54:07 -0500, Anonymous
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>date    : Friday 16 January 1998
>source  : Chronicle-Herald Mail-Star <http://www.herald.ns.ca/>
>headline: Internet user cut off after complaints
>reporter: Lois Legge
>
>A Halifax woman has had her Chebucto Community Net (CCN) 
><http://chebucto.ns.ca/> Internet account terminated, after the non-profit
>Internet provider received hundreds of complaints about her postings.
>
>Barbara Amero blames sexism by male Internet users for the cancellation of
>her service, but CCN says that it simply could not handle the volume of
>complaints against her.
>
>Ms. Amero said, in an interview, that she was informed, on Sunday 4
>January, that her service would be cancelled and her account was
>terminated on Thursday 15 January.
>
>"This morning, I tried to log on, but I could not. All of my files are on
>there, my e-mail -- they just cut me off," she said Thursday.
>
>Ms. Amero said that many of the complaints were encouraged by a
>Newfoundland Internet user who ridiculed her postings about rape and other
>forms of violence against women.
>
>She said that since she started posting on newsgroups two years ago, she
>has been subjected to various obscenities and explicit sexual taunts.
>
>Ms. Amero said that the users have taken offence to articles that she has
>posted about "rape proclivity among males" and violence against women.
>
>She said that she does not consider those postings provocative nor
>expressing hatred against men since she quotes research and surveys by
>academics to validate her case.
>
>She acknowledged that she has fought back by insulting other users but
>said that she has not launched personal attacks such as those she has had
>to endure.
>
>Ms. Amero said that just before Christmas, a user from the United States
>posted a mock article headlined, "Barbara Amero is Dead", saying that she
>had been shot in the head and that her body "was to be burned in a trash
>can and the ashes flushed down the toilet".
>
>She said that she has also been falsely accused of being on welfare and
>abandoning her children.
>
>Ms. Amero said that she told CCN about those postings, but "they do
>not seem to care".
>
>CCN's policy committee chairman, John van Gurp, said that he
>considers the death posting particularly disturbing, adding it would not
>have been tolerated had it been posted by a CCN user.
>
>He said that the content of postings has nothing to do with the decision
>by the board of directors to cancel her service.
>
>"We sent her an e-mail ... and explained that due to the overwhelming
>volume of complaints that we received about her postings, that we had to
>terminate her account," he said.
>
>He added that because CCN is a volunteer-run organization, it could not
>keep up with complaints over the past two years accusing her of libel and
>defamation.
>
>"There is a limited number of volunteer hours, and there are tasks that
>should have been started months, or in some cases years ago, and we just
>cannot do them. I, and a few other people on the committee, spent all this
>time dealing with these complaints ... and it has not stopped."
>
>Mr. van Gurp said that this is only the second time that CCN has cancelled
>an account. Last year, it pulled Halifax cantor Stuart Friedman from the
>service when he was charged with using the Internet to download child
>pornography.
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