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General Cabot Trail wrote:
> 
> Jason Arron Black wrote:
> 
> > Is the Freenet right or was the users account wrongfully terminated?
> 
> The VCN (formerly called "FreeNet") was most assuredly wrong when
> it terminated the users account!
> General Cabot
> CAPE BRETON LIBERATION ARMY
> Western Division
> mailto:gencabot@hotmail.com

What's VCN?

Chebucto Community Net (a "FreeNet"), whose Mission 
Statement is to provide all members of the community 
with access to the Internet, recently wrongfully 
terminated Barbara Amero's account by breaking a 
contract for service. According to the Chair of the 
CCN Policy Committee (John van Gurp), I, Barbara Amero, 
was not in violation of this contract, the User Agreement -- 
that I did not break any rules of the User Agreement. 

Clearly my account was wrongfully terminated and I have 
the option to sue Chebucto Community Net for breaking a 
contract for service. I received a letter from the law
firm, McInnes Cooper & Robertson, signed by Hugh Wright,
lawyer and member of the CCN Board of Directors. This letter
stated that the reason for account termination was contained
in the email sent to me from John van Gurp dated Jan. 4/98.
The reason stated by John van Gurp was that CCN was no
longer willing to provide me with an Internet account
because the number of complaints about my Usenet postings
was overwhelming. John van Gurp, also, told me during a
telephone conversation that most of the complaints were
not legitimate and could be easily dismissed, but some
had to be looked at out of concern for liability. I've
not seen the complaints and CCN has not responded to
my questions about the complaints. Can  CCN be liable 
for what its users post in Usenet? Not according to some 
people, since CCN is not a publisher, is not moderating 
the posts.

Seemingly CCN held Barbara Amero responsible for people
filling CCN mailboxes with complaints which they said
CCN, a volunteer run organization, could not deal with
and terminated her account. After not posting for 3
months during the summer, I started posting again in
September. Shortly after that John Jenkins Sr. targeted
me, launched an attack on me, harassed me, and is still
harassing me. John Jenkins Sr. started many derogatory,
libelous cross-posted threads about me and almost daily 
called on the public to send MANY complaints to CCN to get 
my account terminated. John Jenkins Sr., also, called on
the public to send MANY emails to me to disable my
mailbox so that I could not send or receive email.
That is harassment and could possibly be considered
"public mischief", according to the police. CCN should 
have held John Jenkins Sr. and the people filling CCN 
mailboxes with MANY bogus complaints responsible and 
dealt with them. CCN wrongly terminated my account!

Now some members of the Board of Directors of Chebucto 
Community Net want to make "personal" donations (money)
to help Barbara Amero pay for her Internet access 
through DBIS. 

I, Barbara Amero, am offended, insulted, outraged by
the treatment I received from Chebucto Community Net,
i.e. wrongful termination of my account, and equally
offended, insulted, outraged by some members of the
Chebucto Community Net Board of Directors (mostly men)
offering "personal" donations (money) to pay for my 
Internet access. If I let these power suits, men,
economically support my access to the Internet, what
would that make me? Hmm...?

While I proudly identify myself as demimonde, that does
not mean that I am a kept woman! Nor do I want to be!!

What I want is for Chebucto Community Net to honor
the contract for service, which I negotiated late
last spring after CCN sent me email telling me that
it was time to renew my account; to acknowledge that
CCN made the wrong decision in terminating the account
of one of its users because of the preference of others,
i.e. others who wanted to silence her, to get her  
account terminated; to send a clear message to all 
that in the future Chebucto Community Net will not 
deny a member of the community access to the Internet 
simply because some people want to silence a voice 
and assault, harass Chebucto Community Net with a 
barrage of complaints. 

Barbara A. Amero