Adecvax.206
net.misc
utzoo!decvax!minow
Mon May  3 22:18:19 1982
Free speech and net.jokes
The suggestion that, since public institutions have "policies against
discrimination on grounds of race ..." they are justified in censoring

news/jokes/whathaveyou is contrary to my right as a U.S. citizen to
mouth off on any subject whatsoever.

The Swedish equivalent of ARPA/USENET news, called COM, had this problem
when the data inspection board said that, because of the lack of security
on the system, nobody could discuss "their own or other's" health, religion,
or political beliefs.

It was subsequently pointed out that this is contrary to Swedish constitutional
guarantees of free speech (similar to those in the US) and the rule was
subsequently revised.