[FC-discuss] USENET blocking

[Richard Wiggins]

Way back circa 1993 the institution I work for wrestled with what to do with
the child porn newsgroup.  The institution values free speech.  In this
case, the decision was made that the purpose of the newsgroup seemed to be
illegal activity, and the newsgroup was dropped.  I'm not aware of any other
case of filtering.

/rich

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Oliver Day <oday at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Kevin Driscoll wrote:
> > I have not been a frequent poster to USENET in several years but this
> > saddens me.
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html
> >
> > Does this foreshadow future restrictions?
> >
> > Kevin
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss mailing list
> > Discuss at freeculture.org
> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
> when i read this the first time i thought blocking too.  but it was
> pointed out to me that they are not offering usenet to their subscribers
> which is different then blockng the nntp protocol.  if someone buys
> usenet access through another service i don't believe these isp's will
> prevent access.  while this is still sad and ultimately the wrong
> decision it seems more of a net neutrality debate then a censorship debate.
>
> o
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at freeculture.org
> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://freeculture.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20080616/4daee7dd/attachment.htm