Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rock.concert.net!mcmahan From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991Jun1.174136.6258@rock.concert.net> Date: 1 Jun 91 17:41:36 GMT References: <1991May29.222406.26060@herald.usask.ca> Sender: news@rock.concert.net Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville Lines: 39 In article Kevin Lowey mentions that he runs a BBS on which he can do whatever he pleases. This is not meant as scarasm, just necessary to make my point: Is it equipped for the handicapped? Sure, if you own your *own* computer, you can do whatever you want with it. Try denying access to a black person sometime! You are _still_ subject to _some_ laws! If you *did* deny access, and if the person decided to take it to court, you'd be in *hot water* . And if you received any federal funds, and wanted to *continue* receiving them, then you'd do what the government required when you set your policy! Even private things like apartment complexes owned by private business must go along with the government (or loose a *lot* of things like subsidized insurance, even if they don't get direct federal money) . A bus driver employed by the *city* couldn't kick someone off his bus! Or if Greyhound got *any* kind of federal assistance, and a driver violated federal law, it wouldn't be cut and dried. Usenet may be privately owned, and may set their policy, but as I said -- if they say "No Asians have a RIGHT to use our computers to take over America" I'll be it wouldn't be their policy for long! :-) *You* don't have the right to use YOUR computer if it violates the law! Or your bus, or whatever ... Scary? #include "stddisclaimer.h" #include "signature.h" Scott McMahan