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From: mcbride@rust.zso.dec.com (Melinda McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Anonymous postings
Message-ID: <1380@rust.zso.dec.com>
Date: 13 Jan 91 02:05:09 GMT
References: <40305@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10129@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <11705@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <11705@goofy.Apple.COM> wrs@apple.com (Walter Smith) writes:
>
>Interesting anecdote:  The entire alt.sex hierarchy was removed from 
>internal machines here at Apple because of fear of lawsuits under 
>California's sexual harassment law.

At my site, management decided to remove the entire alt hierarchy
because of concerns about liabilty under anti-harassment laws.  And
our site manager made the same threat to people who complained--if we
weren't careful, we might lose even more access to USENET (and our own
internal VAX NOTES conferences that are not directly work related).

It scares me that even computer companies such as Digital and Apple,
who should know better, feel they must take such a heavy-handed approach
to controlling access to information.

Melinda McBride
Open Systems Publishing Tools Group	decwrl!rust!mcbride
DECwest Engineering			(206)865-8705
Digital Equipment Corporation
14475 NE 24th St.
Bellevue, WA 98007