From caf-talk Caf Aug 31 10:23:24 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [alt.censorship] Excerpts from women against censorship
Message-ID: <1992Aug31.141314.1167@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:13:14 GMT
From caf-talk Caf Aug 31 10:23:24 1992
From: joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Joseph F. Mays)
Newsgroups: alt.censorship
Subject: Excerpts from women against censorship
Message-ID: <2519@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:40:32 GMT
Since I quoted a portion of the book _Women_Against_Censorship_ in my
preceding post, I wanted to take a moment to say something about the book
and enter a couple more excerpts from it.
The book is a collection of essays by various feminists who are opposed to
censorship and to the anti-pornography movement represented by Andrea
Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon. The women who have contributed essays
to the book have in common only their devotion to feminism and their
opposition to censorship. They state reasons for opposition which
come from several different viewpoints. If you have an interest in
opposing the public control of ideas, in whatever form it might take,
I highly recommend the book.
_Women_Against_Censorship_
Edited by Varda Burstyn
Douglas & McIntyre Limited, 1985
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Excerpt 1--
From "False Promises: Feminist Anti-Pornography Legislation in
the U.S.A." by Lisa Duggan, Nan Hunter, and Carole S. Vance
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[page 130]
In the United States, after two decades of increasing community
tolerance for dissenting or disturbing sexual or political materials,
there is now growing momentum for retrenchment. In an atmosphere of
increased conservatism, evidenced by a wave of book-banning and anti-
gay harassment, support for new repressive legislation of various
kinds -- from an Oklahoma law forbidding schoolteachers from advocating
homosexuality to new anti-pornography laws passed in Minneapolis and
Indianapolis -- is growing.
The anti-pornography laws have mixed roots of support, however.
though they are popular with the conservative constituencies that
traditionally favor legal restrictions on sexual expression of all
kinds, they were drafted and are endorsed by antipornography feminists
who oppose traditional obscenity and censorship laws. The model law
of this type, which is now being widely copied, was drawn up in the
politically progressive city of Minneapolis by two radical feminists,
author Andrea Dworkin and attorney Catherine MacKinnon. It was passed
by the city council there, but vetoed by the mayor. A similar law
was also passed in Indianapolis, but later declared unconstitutional
in federal court, a ruling that the city will appeal. Other versions
of the legislation are being considered in numerous cities, and
Pennsylvania senator Arlen Spector has introduced legislation modeled
on parts of the Dworkin-MacKinnon bill in the U.S. Congress.
Dworkin, MacKinnon and their feminist supporters believe that
the new antipornography laws are not censorship laws. They also
claim that the legislative effort behind them is based on feminist
support. Both of these claims are dubious at best. Though the new
laws are civil laws that allow individuals to sue the makers, sellers,
distributors or exhibitors of pornography, and not criminal laws
leading to arrest and imprisonment, their censoring impact would be
substantially as severe as criminal obscenity laws. Materials could be
removed from public availability by court injunction, and publishers
and booksellers could be subject to potentially endless legal
harassment. Passage of the laws was therefore acheived with the
support of right-wing elements who expect the new laws to accomplish
what many censorship efforts are meant to accomplish. Ironically,
many antifeminist conservatives backed these laws, while many feminists
opposed them. In Indianapolis, the law was supported by extreme right
wing religious fundamentalists, including members of the Moral Majority,
while there was _no_ local feminist support. In other cities, tra-
ditional procensorship forces have expressed interest in the new approach to
banning sexually explicit materials. Meanwhile, anticensorship
feminists have become alarmed at these new developments, and are
seeking to galvanize feminist opposition to the new antipornography
legislative strategy pioneered in Minneapolis.
One is tempted to ask, how can this be happening? How can feminists
be entrusting the patriarchal state with the task of legally dis-
tinguishing between permissible and impermissible sexual images?
But in fact this new development is not as surprising as it first
seems. For the reasons explored by Ann Snitow (see page 107),
pornography has come to be seen as a central cause of women's
oppression by a significant number of feminists. Some even argue
that pornography is the root of virtually all forms of exploitation
and discrimination against women. But this analysis takes feminists
very close -- indeed far too close -- to measures that will ultimately
support conservative, anti-sex, procensorship forces in American
society, for it is with these forces that women have forged alliances
in passing such legislation.
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[page 147]
The consequences of enforcing such a law, however, are much more
likely to obstruct than advance feminist political goals. On the
level of ideas, further narrowing of the public realm of sexual
speech coincides all too well with the privatization of sexual,
reproductive, and family issues sought by the far right -- an
agenda described very well for example, by Rosalind Petchesky in
"The Rise of the New Right" in _Abortion_and_Woman's_Choice_.
Practically speaking, the ordinances could result in attempts to
eliminate the images associated with homosexuality. Doubtless
there are heterosexual women who believe that lesbianism is a
"degrading" form of "subordination." Since the ordinances allow
for suits against materials in which men appear "in place of women,"
far right antipornography crusaders could use these laws to suppress
gay male pornography. Imagine a Jerry Falwell-style conservative
filing a complaint against a gay bookstore for selling sexually
explicit materials showing men with other men in "degrading" or
"submissive" or "objectified" postures -- all in the name of pro-
tecting women.
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Excerpt 2--
From "Feminist Debates and Civil Liberties" by June Callwood
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[page 122]
My personal experiences around the issue of pornography and
censorship mirror those of thousands of women in this country who
have become estranged from feminist colleagues and even from close
friends. What alarms me most is that this polarity might well cripple
our efforts to work together in the future on such common --
and vital -- causes as day care, reproductive rights, equal pay
for work of equal value and adequate pensions for women. As lawyer
Mary Eberts once said, "Pornography is our Skokie." Just as the
American Civil Liberties Union's controversial decision to support the
rights of self-styled Nazis to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, in
1977 divided that organization, so the pornography debate is splitting
the women's movement into separate, often hostile, camps.
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[page 129]
Mistrust of civil liberties reveals a lack of historical
perspective. The freedom of dissent enjoyed by today's feminists
owes everything to the civil liberties groups who 30 years ago
fought for the right of marginal organizations to disagree with the
majority. It was a civil liberties organization that sought to make
covenants on the sale of land to Jews illegal. It was a civil
liberties group that in 1965 fought a Toronto bylaw that would have
allowed police to censor placards in demonstrations. Today, it
is the Canadian Civil Liberties Association that protests such
draconian welfare laws as the man-in-the-house rule and campaigns
against inequities in the country's abortion laws.
...
Feminism and civil liberties are inextricable. The goal of
both is a society in which individuals are treated justly. Civil
libertarians who oppose censorship are fighting on behalf of
feminists, not against them.
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From caf-talk Caf Aug 31 10:48:10 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [] File 5--INTERNET Information Resources for CMC
Message-ID: <1992Aug31.143606.11405@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:36:06 GMT
From caf-talk Caf Aug 31 10:48:10 1992
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 92 02:07:38 -0400
From: John Arthur December
Subject: File 5--INTERNET Information Resources for CMC
Message-ID:
Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
==================================================================
Compiled by John December (decemj@rpi.edu), Release 1.53, 07 Aug 92
Additions/comments welcome. This document & updates are available via
anonymous ftp. Host: ftp.rpi.edu, file: pub/communications/internet-cmc
========================
PURPOSE: to list pointers to information describing the Internet,
computer networks, and issues related to computer-mediated
communication (CMC). Topics of interest include the technical,
social, cognitive, and psychological aspects of CMC.
AUDIENCE: this file is useful for those getting started in understanding
the Internet and CMC; it compactly summarizes sources of
information for those who are already exploring these issues.
ASSUMPTIONS: to access many information sources listed here you must
have access to and know how to use anonymous ftp, email, or
USENET newsgroups. Some files are in TeX or PostScript format.
========================
Contents:
Section -1- THE INTERNET AND SERVICES
Section -2- INFORMATION SERVICES/ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
Section -3- SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Section -4- NEWSGROUPS
Section -5- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
========================
Section -1- THE INTERNET AND SERVICES
========================================================================
This section lists information about the Internet, services available
on it, and topics related to computer networking.
o INTERNET DESCRIPT,SCRIPT='SPELL'IONS ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
New User's Questions ftp.nisc.sri.com fyi/fyi4.txt
Hitchhikers Guide ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc1118.txt
Gold in Networks! ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc1290.txt
Zen & Art of Internet ftp.cs.widener.edu pub/zen/
Zen ASCII version csn.org pub/net/zen/
Guide Internet/Bitnet hydra.uwo.ca libsoft/guide1.txt
NSF Resource Guide nnsc.nsf.net resource-guide/
NWNet Internet Guide ftphost.nwnet.net nic/nwnet/user-guide/
SURANet Internet Guide ftp.sura.net pub/nic/infoguide.*.txt
NYSERNet Internet Guide nysernet.org pub/guides/Guide.*.text
CERFNet Guide nic.cerf.net cerfnet/cerfnet_guide/
DDN New User Guide nic.ddn.mil netinfo/nug.doc
AARNet Guide aarnet.edu.au pub/resource-guide/
Internet Monthly Report nis.nsf.net internet/newsletters/
Internet Maps ftp.merit.edu maps/
o INFO REPOSITORIES ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FYIs ftp.nisc.sri.com fyi/fyi-index.txt
RFCs ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc-index.txt
Standards nis.nsf.net documents/std/INDEX.std
Network Info Center nic.ddn.mil netinfo/
Network Info ftp.nisc.sri.com netinfo/
Network Info nic.switch.ch /
UUNET archive ftp.uu.net uunet-info/
Telecomm Archives lcs.mit.edu telecom-archives/
Usenet Repository pit-manager.mit.edu pub/usenet/
Library of Congress seq1.loc.gov pub/iug/index
o NETWORKING ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Network Reading List ftp.uu.net inet/doc/
Internetworking Guides ra.msstate.edu pub/docs/
GAO Internet Security merit.edu pub/doc/gao_rpt
List of FTP Sites pilot.njin.net pub/ftp-list/
NREN Information nis.nsf.net nren/
NSF Plan/Interim NREN expres.cise.nsf.gov recompete/impl.ascii
Uses of Networking infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/gde/netser/usenetworks.gde
Intro TCP/IP topaz.rutgers.edu tcp-ip-docs/tcp-ip-intro.doc
o SERVICES ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yanoff Services List csd4.csd.uwm.edu pub/inet.services.txt
MaasInfo Indexes ftp.unt.edu articles/maas/maasinfo.files
Gopher boombox.micro.umn.edu pub/gopher/
Archie archie.mcgill.ca archie/doc/whatis.archie
Alex infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/soft/alex/alexintro.doc
WAIS sketch/overview hydra.uwo.ca libsoft/wais.txt
WAIS paper julian.uwo.ca doc/wais-paper.text
WAIS information think.com wais/wais-discussion/
Email Services hydra.uwo.ca libsoft/email_services.txt
Public access UNIX gvl.unisys.com pub/nixpub/long
Internet access BBS wuarchive.wustl.edu pub/
WorldWideWeb info.cern.ch pub/www/doc/the_www_book.*
Dialup BBS list wuarchive.wustl.edu mirrors/msdos/bbslists
Network Service Guides ftp.sura.net pub/nic/network.service.guides/
List of Whois Servers sipb.mit.edu pub/whois/whois-servers.list
HYTELNET access.usask.ca pub/hytelnet/pc/
o DIRECTORIES ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Internet Resource Dir ftp.virginia.edu public_access/*.txt
Electronic Journals ftp.eff.org pub/journals/
Barron Library Catalogs ftp.unt.edu library/
St. George Lib Catalogs nic.cerf.net cerfnet/cerfnet_info/library_catalog/
Technical Reports daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au pub/techreports
Interest Groups List ftp.nisc.sri.com netinfo/interest-groups
Dartmouth Merged SIGL dartcms1.dartmouth.edu siglists/
Online Library Catalogs hydra.uwo.ca libsoft/guide2.txt
Library Access Script sonoma.edu pub/libs.sh
Electronic Conferences ksuvxa.kent.edu library/acadlist.readme
o EMAIL ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Finding Email addresses hydra.uwo.ca libsoft/email_address.txt
College Email addresses pit-manager.mit.edu pub/usenet/soc.college/
Pine email ftp.cac.washington.edu pine/pine.blurb
o COMMUNICATION ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Multiple User Dialogue ftp.math.okstate.edu pub/muds/misc/mud-faq/
Internet Relay Chat(IRC) cs.bu.edu irc/support/tutorial.*
o LANGUAGE/CULTURE ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Net Etiquette Guide ftp.sura.net pub/nic/netiquette.txt
Computer Jargon pit-manager.mit.edu pub/jargon/jargon*
Smileys nic.funet.fi pub/misc/funnies/smiley.txt
Post-Gutenberg infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/jnl/harnad.jnl
o POPULAR TOPICS ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Current Weathermap GIF vmd.cso.uiuc.edu wx/sa*
Whois Registration nic.ddn.mil netinfo/user-template.txt
========================
Section -2- INFORMATION SERVICES/ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
========================================================================
This section lists sources of information devoted to the study of CMC
and computer network technology. Below the description of the services,
newsletters, and journals are tables describing online access if it is
available. [see also DIRECTORIES/Electronic Journals in Section -1-]
o INFORMATION SERVERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ALMANAC. A service for multi-media document and information delivery.
It offers many database functions as well.
Comserve. An electronic information service for people interested
in human communication studies.
FTP MAIL get files at anonymous ftp sites via email
HCIBIB. A mail-based retrieval system interface to a database
related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
LISTSERV. A mailing-list server for group communication. LISTSERVE lists
of interest of interest include:
CNI-DIRECTORIES Coalition for Networked Information Directories.
RFCs (Request For Comments). Documents about various issues for
discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues.
o ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Current Cites. A journal which provides citations and brief annotations
for articles from 30 journals in networks and information and
computer technology.
Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de
Communication (EJC/REC). Covers communication theory, research,
practice, and policy.
EJournal. Concerned with implications of electronic networks and texts.
Netweaver. The Newsletter of the Electronic Networking Association.
NETTRAIN is a discussion list about training/support of others in using
the resources available on Bitnet and Internet.
o NEWSLETTERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chaos Corner Dr. Chao's random and interesting things about
computers, networks, and other things
ConneXions Newsletter on information on networking
Inquire: ole@csli.stanford.edu
Internet Review. An "irregular and on-line journal of new and
internesting stuff on the net."
Internet World a newsletter from Meckler Associates
Inquire: meckler@tigger.jvnc.net
Linkletter. The Merit Network's newsletter.
Matrix News (paper newsletter, but partially online) Covers crossnetwork
issues. Some back articles, editorials, and indices online.
Inquire: tic@tic.com
NETNEWS newsletter for network resources
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACSR)
o JOURNAL/SERVICE Access with email to Body of letter
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~(Name = your full name)~
ALMANAC almanac@oes.orst.edu send guide
Comserve comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send Comserve Helpfile
Comserve CMC list comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Sub CMC Name
Comserve CMC notes comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send CMC Notebook
EJC/REC comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Directory EJCREC
EJournal listserv@albany.bitnet Sub EJRNL Name
HCIBIB hcibib@rumpus.colorado.edu query:
Netweaver comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send Netweave Winter91
RFCs rfc-info@isi.edu help: ways_to_get_rfcs
LISTSERV listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu send listserv memo
CNI-DIRECTORIES listserv@cni.org Subscribe CNI-DIRECTORIES Name
NETTRAIN listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Subscribe nettrain Name
FTP MAIL ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com help
PACSR listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Subscribe PACS-P Name
o JOURNAL/SERVICE/DOC ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chaos Corner puffin.cit.cornell.edu cc*.txt
Current Cites a.cni.org current.cites/
Discussion of Comp Conf ftp.nisc.sri.com rfc/rfc1324.txt
Linkletter ftp.merit.edu newsletters/linkletter/
Matrix News (parts) quake.think.com pub/mids/matrix_news/
NETNEWS hydra.uwo.ca libsoft/netnews*.txt
========================
Section -3- SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
========================================================================
This section lists societies and organizations which are concerned with
issues of electronic information and communication.
Below the description of each organization is a table describing
online access to more information if it is available.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR): alliance
of computer professionals who discuss the impact of computer
technology on society. (Contact: cpsr@csli.stanford.edu).
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): public interest organization to
educate public about computer and communication technologies.
The Internet Society (ISOC): supports the development of the
Internet and promotes education and applications.
Electronic Networking Association (ENA): "...to promote electronic
networking in ways that enrich individuals, enhance organizations,
and build global communities." [see Netweaver newsletter in
Section -2-]
o INFO FOR ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EFF ftp.eff.org pub/EFF
ISOC nnsc.nsf.net internet-society/
o INFO FOR Access with email to Body of letter
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~(Name = your full name)~
CPSR listserv@gwuvm.gwu.edu SUBSCRIBE cpsr Name
========================
Section -4- NEWSGROUPS
========================================================================
Newsgroups are sometimes a rich source of information about the
Internet, networks, and CMC issues. This section lists newsgroups in
which topics related to networks, the Internet, or CMC are discussed.
(FAQ) = periodic posting of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & answers.
o INTEREST AREA NEWSGROUP(S)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beginners news.announce.newusers
FAQs news.answers
Internet alt.internet.services, alt.best.of.internet
Usenet alt.culture.usenet, alt.uu.future, news.lists
Internet BBS alt.bbs.internet (FAQ)
Email comp.mail.misc (FAQ)
WAIS comp.infosystems.wais
Gopher alt.gopher
Network Info Sources comp.archives, comp.internet.library,
news.lists, comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Newsgroups news.groups, news.announce.newgroups
Information Systems comp.infosystems
ISDN comp.dcom.isdn
Technical Reports comp.doc.techreports
Computer BBS comp.bbs.misc
Telecomm comp.dcom.telecom, clari.nb.telecom
Computer Underground comp.society.cu-digest
MUDS rec.games.mud.announce (FAQ)
IRC alt.irc
PostScript Net Maps news.lists.ps-maps
Hackers alt.hackers
========================
Section -5- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
========================================================================
This section lists useful information sources.
o ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES ANONYMOUS FTP HOST FILE OR DIRECTORY/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Computer Communication infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/bib/parker.bib
Networked Info Bib infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/bib/stanton.bib
WAIS Bibliography infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/bib/lincoln.bib
Electronic Serials infolib.murdoch.edu.au pub/bib/bailey.bib
FYI Bibliography ftp.nisc.sri.com fyi/fyi3.txt
o NETWORKS/CMC JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scientific American, volume 265, number 3, September 1991. Issue on
computer networks.
Journal of Communication, volume 39, number 3, Summer 1989. Issue on
computer communication affecting social power distribution.
Communication Yearbook, volume 12, 1989, chapter 8, "Issues and Concepts
in Research on Computer-Mediated Communication Systems."
o TECHNICAL JOURNALS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Computer Communication Review (ACM SIGCOMM), Communications of the ACM,
IEEE transactions on communication technology, IEEE Spectrum, Electronics
and communication engineering journal, ONLINE, Information Today, LinkUp,
MIS Quarterly, Information World Review Telecommunications,
Telecommunications Products and Technology, Global Networks
o HUMAN COMMUNICATION JOURNALS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Communication Quarterly, Communication Research, Communication Yearbook,
Computers and Human Behavior, Human Communication Research, Journal of
Communication, Technical Communication, World Communication
o BOOKS: a selected listing of particularly useful books.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Romiszowski, A. J. Computer-mediated communication: a selected
bibliography. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology
Publications, 1992.
--COMPUTER NETWORKS:
Adams, Rick and Frey, Donnalyn: !%@:: A Directory of Mail Addressing and
Networks, 2nd Ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1990.
Kehoe, Brendan P. Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide.
2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992.
Kessler, Gary C. ISDN: concepts, facilities, and services. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1990.
LaQuey, Tracy L., ed. The User's Directory of Computer Networks.
Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990.
Motorola Codex. The Basics Book of Information Networking. Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.
Quarterman, John S. The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing
Systems Worldwide. Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990.
--COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION:
Chesebro, James W. and Donald G. Bonsall. Computer-mediated
communication: human relationships in a computerized world.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Dunlop, Charles and Rob Kling, eds. Computerization and Controversy:
Value Conflicts and Social Choices. Academic Press, 1991.
Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Murray Turoff. The Networked Nation: Human
Communication via Computer. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1978.
Sproull, Lee and Sara Kiesler. Connections: New Ways of Working in
the Networked Organization. MIT Press, 1991.
========================
This document is Copyright 1992 by John December (decemj@rpi.edu).
Permission to use, copy, or distribute this document for non-commercial,
educational purposes is hereby granted, provided that this copyright
and permission notice appear in all copies. I make no representations
about the suitability, stability, or accuracy of this document for any
purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty.
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From caf-talk Caf Aug 31 11:03:21 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: MYGDALW@baylor.ccis.baylor.edu (William Mygdal)
Subject: (none)
Message-ID: <01GO878CEWTW9JDZ9E@BAYLOR.EDU>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:02:00 GMT
Signoff comp-academic-freedom-talk Deborah Ader
From caf-talk Caf Aug 31 21:56:30 1992
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.admin.policy,alt.society.civil-liberty,soc.college,alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk
From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Subject: RFD: comp.society.acad-freedom.news, comp.society.acad-freedom.talk
Message-ID:
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:46:13 GMT
This is a request for discussion regarding creation of two newsgroups
for discussions and news on academic freedom on computers and networks.
The groups currently exist as alt groups. The alt versions of the
newsgroups have estimated July readership of 29000 and 9000. (The
readership can be expected to increase as the Fall term starts in many
places.) About 390 folks get various versions of the mailling list.
Current charters:
Purpose: To discuss questions such as: How should general principles
of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom to read,
due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers and
networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can the
principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and networks be
defended?
comp.society.acad-freedom.news News concerning academic freedom
CAF-News - The best notes from CAF-Talk as selected and abstracted by
a moderator. (Moderator of record Carl Kadie, kadie@eff.org.)
comp.society.acad-freedom.talk Discussions on academic freedom
CAF-Talk - A free-speech forum focused on, but not limited to, these
issues.
Alternative names for the groups are:
c.s.freedom.acad.talk, c.s.freedom.acad.news
c.s.freedom.academic, c.s.freedom.academic.best
c.s.freedom.academic, c.s.freedom.academic.digest
c.s.acad-freedom, c.s.acad-freedom.best
c.s.acad-freedom, c.s.acad-freedom.digest
(or variations thereof)
The discussion on this proposal will take place in news.groups.
Please see the pertinent postings in news.answers and
news.announce.newgroups for the rules that will be followed in
creating a newsgroup ().
//Jyrki
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From caf-talk Caf Sep 1 17:52:19 1992
Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,rec.arts.books
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: [UPI] Report: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.214241.984@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:42:41 GMT
[Follow up to alt.censorship and alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk.]
Copyright 1992 by UPI. Reposted with permission from the ClariNet
Electronic Newspaper newsgroup clari.news.books, et al. For more info
on ClariNet, write to info@clarinet.com or phone 1-800-USE-NETS.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Censorship or challenges of textbooks, classic
novels, and other materials frequently used in public school classrooms
was at its highest level in 10 years of surveys of the practices, a
public education watchdog group reported Tuesday.
People for the American Way, which describes itself as a 300,000
member non-partisan constitutional liberties organization, reported that
``censors'' were more active in 1991-92 than in any other year, with 376
``attacks on the freedom to learn'' in 44 states.
It said challenges to library materials -- books that no child is
required to read -- rose to 173, compared with 72 during the 1990-91
school year.
``The censors' success rate was disturbingly high, higher in fact
than at any point in the last four years,'' the group said. ``Forty-one
percent of the materials challenged were removed or restricted in some
fashion.''
The group said its 10th annual survey found that the most challenges
to textbooks and other materials were from Florida, 34; Texas, 27;
California, 27; Oregon, 24; and Minnesota, 22. There were no challenges
in Arkansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and
Vermont and the District of Columbia.
The group said the most frequently challenged books during 1991-92
school year included Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; More Scary
Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz; The Catcher in the Rye by
J.D. Salinger; and The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.
The most frequently challenged materials were Pumsy: In Pursuit of
Excellence; Impressions; Quest; Positive Action; and DUSO (Developing
Understanding of Self and Others).
``More than one-fifth of all incidents were the handiwork of
extremist conservative groups or individuals at the national or local
level,'' People for the American Way reported.
``And even in incidents where no such links were readily apparent,
similarities in targets and rhetoric recurred, suggesting that a
decade's worth of exhortation from national leaders has given birth to
an active, self-generating censorship movement.
``The most frequent rationale for challenges was that materials were
perceived to be at odds with the challengers' religious views. Such
materials, including classic novels, were frequently labeled 'Satanic,
New Age, or anti-Christian.'
``Second most common were challenges in which the materials were
deemed to be profane or to contain otherwise objectionable language;
third were those in which treatment of sexuality was found offensive.''
Some examples of censorship or challenges listed by the organization:
--Jacksonville, Fla.: Objectors brought 20 challenges, including
criticisms on Maurice Sendak's, In the Night Kitchen, and John
Knowles's, A Separate Peace. In more than half of the challenges, books
were either removed or restricted.
--Merritt Island, Fla.: Objectors alleged that portions of a
calisthenics warm-up videotape called ``Stretch to Win'' were ``like
yoga,'' promoted meditation and ``out of body experiences.'' The video
was retained but the children of the objectors were given alternative
materials.
--Meridian, Idaho: A group objected to a nurse's presentation on HIV
and AIDS to a middle school class, raising false allegations, the
organization reported. ``District officials issued a gag order
prohibiting district employees from teaching students anything related
to sex education or HIV-AIDS,'' the watchdog group said. ``Student
editors of the high school newspaper were prohibited by school officials
>from publishing a story on the controversy.''
Buffalo Grove, Ill.: School officials reacted to a student's story
about an illegal abortion by permanently shutting down the school's
literary magazine.
--Sidell, Ill.: A student who objected to reading The Catcher in the
Rye was given another book assignment, but some ministers still sought
to remove the book from a 12th grade English class. The book was
retained, but the English department was told to consider a less
controversial book.
--Slidell, La.: The book Voodoo and Hoodoo was characterized as
contributing to extreme anti-social behavior and unsanitary practices,
and the school board banned it from the schools.
--Hillsville, Va.: School district officials, under pressure from a
minister, barred the district's Teach of the Year from using a novel,
The Floatplane Notebooks, in an 11th grade literature class. The book
was removed from the 11th grade class, but retained for the 12th grade.
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From caf-talk Caf Sep 1 19:22:01 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.censorship,alt.politics.correct,alt.discrimination,soc.college
From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: AAUP: "On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes"
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.232150.23045@eff.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:21:50 GMT
======= ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/academic/speech-codes.aaup =======
[This is a policy statement from the American Association of
University Professors. The statement was endorsed by AAUP's Committee
A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and by its Council at their meetings
in June 1992. As with all AAUP policy statements, it is in the public
domain. It was published in the July-August 1992 _Academe_.]
On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes
Freedom of thought and expression is essential to any institution of
higher learning. Universities and colleges exist not only to transmit
existing knowledge. Equally, they interpret, explore, and expand that
knowledge by testing the old and proposing the new.
This mission guides learning outside the classroom quite as much as in
class, and often inspires vigorous debate on those social, economic,
and political issues that arouse the strongest passions. In the
process, views will be expressed that may seem to many wrong,
distasteful, or offensive. Such is the nature of freedom to sift and
winnow ideas.
On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be banned or forbidden.
No viewpoint or message may be deemed so hateful or disturbing that it
may not be expressed.
Universities and colleges are also communities, often of a residential
character. Most campuses have recently sought to become more diverse,
and more reflective of the larger community, by attracting students,
faculty, and staff from groups that were historically excluded or
underrepresented. Such gains as they have made are recent, modest, and
tenuous. The campus climate can profoundly affect an institution's
continued diversity. Hostility or intolerance to persons who differ
from the majority (especially if seemingly condoned by the
institution) may undermine the confidence of new members of the
community. Civility is always fragile and can easily be destroyed.
In response to verbal assaults and use of hateful language some
campuses have felt it necessary to forbid the expression of racist,
sexist, homophobic, or ethnically demeaning speech, along with conduct
or behavior that harasses. Several reasons are offered in support of
banning such expression. Individuals and groups that have been victims
of such expression feel an understandable outrage. They claim that the
academic progress of minority and majority alike may suffer if fears,
tensions, and conflicts spawned by slurs and insults create an
environment inimical to learning. These arguments, grounded in the
need to foster an atmosphere respectful of and welcome to all persons,
strike a deeply responsive chord in the academy. But, while we can
acknowledge both the weight of these concerns and the thoughtfulness
of those persuaded of the need for regulation, rules that ban or
punish speech based upon its content cannot be justified. An
institution of higher learning fails to fulfill its mission if it
asserts the power to proscribe ideas -- and racial or ethnic slurs,
sexist epithets, or homophobic insults almost always express ideas,
however repugnant. Indeed, by proscribing any ideas, a university sets
an example that profoundly disserves its academic mission. Some may
seek to defend a distinction between the regulation of the content of
speech and the regulation of the manner (or style) of speech. We find
this distinction untenable in practice because offensive style or
opprobrious phrases may in fact have been chosen precisely for their
expressive power. As the United States Supreme Court has said in the
course of rejecting criminal sanctions for offensive words: [W]ords
are often chosen as much for their emotive as their cognitive force.
We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of
the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard
for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be
the more important element of the overall message sought to be
communicated. The line between substance and style is thus too
uncertain to sustain the pressure that will inevitably be brought to
bear upon disciplinary rules that attempt to regulate speech.
Proponents of speech codes sometimes reply that the value of emotive
language of this type is of such a low order that, on balance,
suppression is justified by the harm suffered by those who are
directly affected, and by the general damage done to the learning
environment. Yet a college or university sets a perilous course if it
seeks to differentiate between high-value and low-value speech, or to
choose which groups are to be protected by curbing the speech of
others. A speech code unavoidably implies an institutional competence
to distinguish permissible expression of hateful thought from what is
proscribed as thoughtless hate. Institutions would also have to
justify shielding some, but not other, targets of offensive language
-- not to political preference, to religious but not to philosophical
creed, or perhaps even to some but not to other religious
affiliations. Starting down this path creates an even greater risk
that groups not originally protected may later demand similar
solicitude -- demands the institution that began the process of
banning some speech is ill equipped to resist.
Distinctions of this type are neither practicable nor principled;
their very fragility underscores why institutions devoted to freedom
of thought and expression ought not adopt an institutionalized
coercion of silence.
Moreover, banning speech often avoids consideration of means more
compatible with the mission of an academic institution by which to
deal with incivility, intolerance, offensive speech, and harassing
behavior:
(l) Institutions should adopt and invoke a range of measures that
penalize conduct and behavior, rather than speech, such as rules
against defacing property, physical intimidation or harassment, or
disruption of campus activities. All members of the campus community
should be made aware of such rules, and administrators should be ready
to use them in preference to speech-directed sanctions.
(2) Colleges and universities should stress the means they use best --
to educate -- including the development of courses and other
curricular and co-curricular experiences designed to increase student
understanding and to deter offensive or intolerant speech or conduct.
Such institutions should, of course, be free (indeed en and
discrimination, whether physical or verbal.
(3) The governing board and the administration have a special duty not
only to set an outstanding example of tolerance, but also to challenge
boldly and condemn immediately serious breaches of civility.
(4) Members of the faculty, too, have a major role; their voices may
be critical in condemning intolerance, and their actions may set
examples for understanding, making clear to their students that
civility and tolerance are hallmarks of educated men and women.
(5) Student personnel administrators have in some ways the most
demanding role of all, for hate speech occurs most often in
dormitories, locker-rooms, cafeterias, and student centers. Persons
who guide this part of campus life should set high standards of their
own for tolerance and should make unmistakably clear the harm that
uncivil or intolerant speech inflicts.
To some persons who support speech codes, measures like these --
relying as they do on suasion rather than sanctions -- may seem
inadequate. But freedom of expression requires toleration of "ideas we
hate," as Justice Holmes put it. The underlying principle does not
change because the demand is to silence a hateful speaker, or because
it comes from within the academy. Free speech is not simply an aspect
of the educational enterprise to be weighed against other desirable
ends. It is the very precondition of the academic enterprise itself.
--
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
=kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 00:00:28 1992
Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
Subject: Re: [UPI] Report: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Message-ID:
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:52:44
It is nice to know that there was no leftist censorship at all.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
*
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 10:15:03 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.admin.policy,alt.censorship,soc.college
From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Abstract of CAF-News 02.40
Message-ID: <1992Sep2.141452.553@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:14:52 GMT
This is an abstract for the most recent "Computers and Academic
Freedom News" (CAF-News). Information about CAF-News follows the
abstract. The full CAF-News is available via anonymous ftp or by
email. For ftp access, do an anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org
(192.88.144.4). Get file "pub/academic/news/cafv02n40".
The full CAF-News is also available via email. Send email to
archive-server@eff.org. Include the line:
send caf-news cafv02n40
--- begin abstract ---
[Week ending August 16th, 1992
========================== KEY ================================
The words after the numbers are a short PARAPHRASES of the
articles, or QUOTES from them, NOT AN OBJECTIVE SUMMARY and
not necessarily my opinion.
===============================================================
[Many issues are in production - Carl]
Notes 1 to 5 concern the censorship of materials on the basis of
alleged obscenity (as defined by a recent Canadian Surpeme Court
decision). This debate arose in the wake of some Canadian
institutions' removal of the Usenet alt.sex hierarchy.
1. "Deciding something should be censored because it could have
indirect negative effects is not a stand against pornography, it's a
stand against the whole notion of free speech... The strength of free
speech [is that] you get to hear as much as you wish to hear from
whomever you care to listen to, and then make up your own mind about
what the truth is."
2. "Considered as a whole, alt.sex has scientific, political,
literary, and artistic value and therefore should not be banned as
obscene... The actions of the administrators show the chilling
effects of the law. Because the law is so vague and because it
provides no easy way to ask for definitive clarifications, such
effects are inevitable."
<1992Aug11.112000.4307@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
3. "I am not [in favour of] censoring reasoned argument that, for
instance, "women like rape" or "children like sex with adults" (much
as I abhor that position). I am for censoring certain material that
makes no arguments, presents no opinions, and can have the effect of
reinforcing and encouraging rapists and child molesters."
<1992Aug11.183602.4348@cs.sfu.ca>
4. This article gives a list of cases in which material has been
threatened with censorship on the basis of obscenity in the USA since
the 1930s.
5. "Pornography, and by this I'm referring to the explicit display of
women for consumption by men, is part of the reproduction of cultural
meaning in our society. It DOES discuss ideas. It addresses the
question of what is the cultural standard for a sexually desirable
woman, and what her power relation is to the man who can have access
to a commodified version of her sexuality through the purchase of a
representation of this idealized sexuality."
<1992Aug15.213252.22415@sfu.ca>
Notes 6 to 10 concern whether Usenet sites should refuse to receive
newsgroups which contain copyrighted materials.
6. While I am strongly opposed to censorship based on notions of
offensiveness, I am tempted to follow a policy that newsgroups
which are used to distribute demonstrably illegal materials should
not be carried.
7. The exclusion of illegal newsgroups would be in line with library
policies, which state that "1) laws should be obeyed 2) legal advice
should obtained from compete sources 3) restrictive laws should be
challenged (with legal means) 4) and that challenged material should
be given due process."
<1992Aug13.180458.9340@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
8. If it could be argued that Usenet was a common carrier then only
the posters of illegal material would be legally help accountable.
However, the common carrier argument has never been tested and ignores
the heavily state funded nature of the Internet and therefore Usenet.
<1992Aug13.195436.19296@telematics.com>
9. "While USENET is certainly a service and a priviledge, at an
ACADEMIC institution most people consider it quite inappropriate for
any person or committee to judge what material is acceptable and what
is not."
10. "After reading other people's views on the issue, I have decided
that for the time being I will continue my current policy of carrying
everything, and if I am challenged on it by my superiors, will
strongly recommend AGAINST restricting the flow of News through our
system in any way."
Note 11 contains an article by Jim Boyce which appeared on July 14th
in the Wilfrid Laurier University's student newspaper, the Cord. It
is posted with his permission.
11. After a student brought the matter to the attention of the
newspaper, questions have been raised at WLU about a program used by
Computing Services to find "profane" file names.
<1992Aug13.182157.5688@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Elizabeth]
--- end abstract ---
CAF-News is a weekly digest of notes from CAF-talk.
CAF-News is available as newsgroup alt.comp.acad-freedom.news or via
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Back issues of CAF-News are available via anonymous ftp or via email.
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help
index
Disclaimer: This CAF-News abstract was compiled by a guest editor or a
regular editor (Paul Joslin, Elizabeth M. Reid, Adam C. Gross, Mark C.
Sheehan or Carl M. Kadie). It is not an EFF publication. The views an
editor expresses and editorial decisions he or she makes are his or
her own.
--
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
=kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 13:27:18 1992
Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault)
Subject: Re: [UPI] Report: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Message-ID:
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:18:44 GMT
In article jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
It is nice to know that there was no leftist censorship at all.
No, only no leftist censorship reported by a left-leaning organization.
--
Jim Ault, ITS Systems Programmer, aultj@rpi.edu <><
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 17:01:52 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Recent Changes to the CAF Archive
Message-ID: <1992Sep2.210144.8139@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:01:44 GMT
Recent Changes to the Computers and Academic Freedom (CAF) Archive
The CAF Archive is an electronic library of information about
computers and academic freedom.
It is available via anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4) in
directory "pub/academic". It is also available via email. For
information on email access send email to archive-server@eff.org. In
the body of your note include the lines "help" and "index".
For more information, to make contributions, or to report typos
contract Carl Kadie (kadie@eff.org).
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/abstracts
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These are abstracts to the Computers and Academic Freedom News
(CAF-news). Referenced issues of CAF-news are available via anonymous
ftp to eff.org in directory "academic/news".
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/academic/speech-codes.aaup
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On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes Expression - An
official statement of the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP)
It says in part: "On a campus that is free and open, no idea can be
banned or forbidden. No viewpoint or message may be deemed so hateful
or disturbing that it may not be expressed."
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/admin/wais
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How anyone who can ftp to eff.org can also do a fuzzy full text search
on the CAF archive using "wais".
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/aug_16_1992
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/aug_23_1992
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/aug_30_1992
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/batch/sep_06_1992
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/books/burstyn,_varda
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_Women_Against_Censorship_
Edited by Varda Burstyn
Douglas & McIntyre Limited, 1985
"The book is a collection of essays by various feminists who are
opposed to censorship and to the anti-pornography movement represented
by Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon. The women who have
contributed essays to the book have in common only their devotion to
feminism and their opposition to censorship. They state reasons for
opposition which come from several different viewpoints. If you have
an interest in opposing the public control of ideas, in whatever form
it might take, I highly recommend the book."
- Joseph F. Mays, joemays@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Excerpts enclosed.
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civics/administration.address
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Addresses for writing to the President, the Vice-President, and
cabinet members.
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civics/charter.can
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - From the Canadian
Constitution Act 1982
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civil-liberty/FAQ.pointer
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An article by Jyrki Kuoppala with an outline of an FAQ (Frequently
Asked Questions w/ Answers) for civil liberities. Includes information
about a civil liberties gopher.
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/civil-liberty/women-against-censorship
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Excerpts from _Women Against Censorship_. Edited by Varda Burstyn.
Douglas & McIntyre Limited, 1985.
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/censorship-and-harassment
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q: Must/should universities ban material that some find offensive
(from Netnews facilities, email, libraries, and student publications,
etc) in order to comply with antiharassment laws?
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/email.privacy
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q: Can (should) my university monitor my email?
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/media.control
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q: Since freedom of the press belongs to those who own presses, a
public university can do anything it wants with the media that it
owns, right?
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/netnews.liability
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q: Does a University reduce its likely liability by screening Netnews
for offensive articles and newsgroups?
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/netnews.writing
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q: Should my university allow students to post to Netnews?
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/faq/umanitoba.ca
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q: What is going on at the Univeristy of Manitoba in Canada? What is
the Canadian law on obscenity?
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/filters.email
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Information about how users (on Unix machines) can filter out
harassing email by themselves.
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/barnes-v-glen-theatre
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The Suprme Court decision that upheld laws outlawing nonobscene nude
dancing because
1) Nude dancing is only incidently expressive and the govenment has
an substantial interest in protecting order and morality.
[The Chief Justice, joined by Justice O'Connor and Justice Kennedy]
OR
2) Nude dancing is not expressive and the moral opposition to nudity
provides government a rational basis for banning it.
[Justice Scalia]
OR
3) Nude dancing is expressive but the govenment has
an substantial interest in preventing secondary effects of
nude dancing establishments (prostitution, sexual
assaults, and other criminal activity)
[Justice Souter]
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/charter.can
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - From the Canadian
Constitution Act 1982
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/child-porn.silvers
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The Application of Child Pornography Statutes to Non-Obscene Art and
Family Photography by Jolyon Silversmith, silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu.
It is a term paper written in May, 1992 for Government 1341:
Constitutional Law at Harvard University.
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/hate-crime.ohio
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A UPI story that starts: "The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled the state's
ethnic intimidation law is unconstitutional because it is an
infringement of the right of free speech."
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/law/obscenity.history.us
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Notes on the the history of obscenity law by T.S. Davies,
tsdavies@mailbox.syr.edu. Based on the book by Edward de Grazia:
1992 _Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law Of Obscenity And
The Assault On Genius_. New York: Random House.
(ISBN: 0-394-57611-X, $30.00)
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n37
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/news/cafv02n40
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/baylor.edu
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Computer Polices of Baylor Univeristy. A private religious university in Texas.
(critiqued)
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/policies/baylor.edu.critique
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Critique of the Computer Polices of Baylor Univeristy. It says in part:
'The school's written policy isn't bad ... The Baylor ... could be
improved by allowing "personal use." ... The Baylor policy also
provides for some due process, although the "due process" begins by
temporarily suspending a user from the computer.'
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ftp.eff.org:pub/academic/statements/nren.privacy.cpsr
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"Proposed Privacy Guidelines for the NREN" -- Statement of Marc
Rotenberg, Washington Director Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility (CPSR)
(The statement is still being developed and revised.)
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--
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
=kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 17:42:23 1992
Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Subject: Re: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Message-ID: <1992Sep2.212930.25749@news.uiowa.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:29:30 GMT
From article , by aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault):
>
> No, only no leftist censorship reported by a left-leaning organization.
That's an unfair criticism. PFAW has vigorously opposed censorship based
on leftist political correctness. For example, they've opposed such
things as efforts to ban such things as Huck Finn because its patronizing
view of blacks. I don't think they've been as consistently free speech
as either the ALA or the ACLU, but they certainly try pretty hard.
I have no patience with those silly folks who think of the ACLU is a
leftist organization. If my memory serves me right, back when George Bush
was bashing the ACLU, his own attourny general was a member and past chair
of the Pittsburgh chapter!
Doug Jones
jones@cs.uiowa.edu
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 17:46:23 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: andersom@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (ANDERSON MARC O)
Subject: please unsubscribe me
Message-ID: <199209022146.AA28191@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:46:11 GMT
please unsubscribe me, thanks
marc
From caf-talk Caf Sep 2 18:03:59 1992
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: AXXWILS@UICVMC.bitnet (_Dick Wilson)
Subject: Re: Computers and Academic Freedom News 02.40 (Digest)
Message-ID: <199209022203.AA08906@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:01:03 GMT
Please remove my name from this mailing list. Thanks
NOTE! New Email Address: dwilson@swan.admin.uiuc.edu
From caf-talk Caf Sep 3 21:36:50 1992
Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: [UPI] Report: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Message-ID: <1992Sep4.004517.19474@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:45:17 GMT
In article jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
>It is nice to know that there was no leftist censorship at all.
>--
>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
>*
>He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
So what books have liberals had removed recently?
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From caf-talk Caf Sep 5 08:46:54 1992
Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
From: delisle@eskimo.celestial.com (Ben Delisle)
Subject: Re: [UPI] Report: Book censorship, challenges in schools at 10-year high
Message-ID: <1992Sep5.083152.13488@eskimo.celestial.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:31:52 GMT
[Warning - Rant on...]
It is the extremist political groups and religious groups
that are the forces of evil and stupidity; they seek no compramise
in any challenge, only to totally ban any targeted product - from
anyone. Insead of forcing a blanket cencorship on materials; it should
be incouraged to place the children of closed minded parents on a
'restriction list' of banned or controlled materials and leave
other people outside of the consors' range of influence.
Maybe it is time to censor the censors, engnore them totally
and continue to use materials reguardless of that they may want. I
would encourage to automatically throw out any request by a minister
(for example) as extremist and not worth the time of a board or
committee to listen to.
Books and other media is often ment to be contraversial,
ment to offend; it is the job of these materials and products to
make people think. In the case of educational domains - to educate
even if something is going to piss someone off, it is necessary.
Often times it is the only way to show a different point of view,
a different way of life ( the way people in another culture may
live ), a different way of thought, what ever.
It is fear that motivates censors, it is intolarence
that motivates censors, it is hate that motivates censors, it
is stupidity that motivates censors, it is disrespect that motivates
censors, it is lack of creativeness that motivates censors, it is a
weak imageination that motivates censors.
Where sexist groups are involved in banning some thing because
of 'incorrect' labels of a job title such as a "workmen" instead of
"workers" may be taking a description out of context, perhapse the
story is talking about workmen and not a mix of workmen and workwomen.
They also are upset of any thing that (depending on the group(s)
are offended by anything that makes the sexes (or orentiations)
seem (un)equal.
Political and enthic groups have an agenda, some likely revisionist,
they want to make them selves look if they are the only ones
that are right, good, and correct all others are totaly wrong.
They want to get more power. They will allow anything that makes
themselves look better (even when they may not be) and try
to ban or restrict things that make others look good in any way.
Religious groups (also see previous paragraph)
want to push their beleifs on others, they will say that their
god(s) or version of god(d) or word(s) of god(s) is the ONLY WAY
or TRUTH nomatter what and all others are WRONG! (They always seem
to scream). They will try to stop any thing that is different
as anti-their-group(insert your relegion here) and call every thing
not-their-group(insert everything else here) as evil, (ever notice
that the word 'evil' has 'VI' in it? {unix humor} ) etc.
People who are offended by bad words, swearing, probably
arn't happy that sometimes there will be salty ways to say things
that no other 'normal' ways would properly fit or be approiate.
They may or may not be aware that in all societies that there
are different strata; where the language will differ and verious
amounts of nastyness will exist. They may not want themselves and
others to see how people in 'lower levels' may speak or act.
In most cases it seems that they (the censors) merely want
to hide any alternatives, and push their world view on all around
them.
May be it is time to intentionally offend others,
offend someone every day!
All odds 1:1, no risk, we are all the same, all alternatives
are to be removed and destroyed, all (decsenters) are to be purified
and assilimated, resistance is useless, we have guns.
[Rant off.. It is the middle of the night and I can't type straight
and can't think in an articulate mannor.]
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+-(c)--------------------------+ Freedom is to the soul is what
| delisle@eskimo.celestial.com | fresh air is to the lungs, and
+------------------------------+ knowledge is to the mind.
