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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Usenet and legal liability
Message-ID: <51365@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Nov 89 18:19:57 GMT
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Nobody can or should control all that flows through USENET, but site
admins certainly do have it within their power to net get alt.sex, or
rec.humor, or even sci.aquaria :-).

Personally, I think they are crazy.  For once you start controlling this,
forbidding one group and permitting another based on your opinion of the
legality of its content, then you *are* responsible for feeding it because
you have, and have exercised, control.

I think it is far safer to take no moral stands on what is written than
to take just one.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473