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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP (K.S. Bhaskar)
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Subject: Re: Suppression of research presentation
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 15:13:50 EDT
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Well, no doubt DoD has the right, like any sponsor, to have a say in how the
research is published, as long as the conditions are agreed to beforehand.
The REAL problem is that the overall funding for reasarch is increasingly
channeled through DoD.  Considering that the money is taken from the taxpayers
in the first place, this practice is tantamount to censorship and coercion
through legal channels.  In the long run, clamping down on open communication
in research will hurt us more than it hurts anyone else.