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From: randy@oresoft.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,news.misc
Subject: net.censorship, academic freedom, ... (was A quiz)
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Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 13:41:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  6 13:41:40 1987
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wheatena!gsmith (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>                                                           At first he
>          threatened the department here with legal action. The result
>          is that Matthew Wiener was kicked off our machines, and hence
>          his work on his thesis has been delayed.

Censorship on the net (which is a crock) pales in comparison to a university
allowing a sociopathic threat resulting from a bunch of stupid net.flaming to
affect an academic career.  Either there is more here than meets the pixels,
or someone's forgotten something about academic freedom.  You are at UCB,
aren't you, GWS?  Is this 1950?  We have to expect net.fights to spill over
into 'real' life, but does the university have to take it seriously?
-- 
Randy Bush, Compiler Group, Oregon Software, Portland Oregon (503) 245-2202
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