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From: capehart@arrakis.nevada.edu (ANNE CAPEHART)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What constitutes abuse of the net?
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Date: 14 Dec 89 17:27:53 GMT
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Reply-To: capehart@arrakis.nevada.edu.uucp (ANNE CAPEHART)
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cosell@bbn.com writes:

hettinger@krypton.arc.nasa.gov (Lawrence J. Hettinger) writes:

>>	In rec.humor I read a particularly brutal series of
>distic jokes dealing with child abuse and pedophilia posted
>>by an individual who will go unnamed.  I have spent a little
>>bit of time yesterday and today blasting this person via e-mail, 
>>and I wrote to the system administrator at the University where
>>the posting originated.  I basically just lodged a protest with
>>the sysad, but also asked that consideration be made of terminating
>>this individual's access to the net.

>>	Am I right or wrong?

>Unless you have been appointed some kind of network-goodness-evaluator,
>regardless of what notion might exist of "abuse" of the net, I think
>you were out of line.  Plain and simple, I think it is just none of your
>business...

   Sorry, I have to disagree!  No, he's not the network censor; neither
am I.  But someone else's rights stop where my nose begins.  And when
one makes light of child abuse on a public forum, my nose is getting rubbed
into it.  
    Maybe the person did have the "right" to post such jokes.  But I also
have a right to strongly voice my opposition to them!

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Anne Racel-Capehart                  internet - capehart@arrakis.nevada.edu
University of Nevada, Las Vegas      compuserve - 72105,1105

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