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Subject: Re: U. of Hawaii uucp mail & Usenet news cutoff
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Date: 7 Feb 90 10:30:14 GMT
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In article <1990Feb7.012458.14811@aqdata.uucp>, sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
> From article <303@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, by eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott):

>> Hey kids--THIS is censorship--it's government prohibition of the
>> free exchange of ideas.

> No, it's not.  The government isn't stopping students from setting up
> their own system and paying for their own phone lines to get news feeds.
> The government is not required to pay for free speech, which isn't
> really free because it's being paid for.

Yes, it is. The government has decided that the university can't support
usenet. If the university had decided not to spend their own money on it,
you'd be right. If it isn't censorship, it is limiting the ability of
professional educators to decide how to allocate their resources. 

Also, I sincerely doubt that this particular university is different from
any others in the fact that they have many funding sources other than the
state, and so the state mandating such a thing is NOT an issue of what the
government's money is spent on. It could have been, if they had simply said
that state money can't be used for such a purpose.
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