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From: jmoore@mips.UUCP (Jim Moore)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Usenet should exclude South Africa
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 15:44:16 EST
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> This may be premature, as I am not aware of any potential Usenet hosts
> in South Africa, but I think we should anticipate future developments
> and, as a body, refuse to connect any of our hosts to any host in South
> Africa until apartheid disappears from that country.
> -- 
> Rich Kulawiec  pucc-j!rsk or rsk@asc.purdue.edu

If the issue should arise, I would invite the opportunity to exchange
ideas with the people living with the situation in South Africa.
Should we follow the lead of Prime Minister Bote(sp?), and censor information
flow between South Africa and the rest of world? Economic sanctions obviously
do serve to put pressure on a country to behave in a particular manner.
But I fail to see what information flow sanctions could do except help
a repressive government hide its dirty laundry.

Jim Moore
MIPS Computer Systems
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