From TIME: Crackdown at CMU

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>Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 17:44:01 -0500
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>From: ped[_at_]panix.com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt)
>Subject: From TIME: Crackdown at CMU
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>Note: this is copyright material from this week's TIME magazine, posted
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>NETWATCH
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>Crackdown at Carnegie Mellon
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>For years universities have turned a blind eye to the Internet traffic
>passing through their computer systems -- including the sexually explicit
>words and pictures in such USENET newsgroups as alt.sex and
>rec.arts.erotica. Those days may be over, at least at Carnegie Mellon
>University in Pittsburgh. According to a new policy scheduled to go into
>effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually
>oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion
>groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill
>advised. ''The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd,''
>says Mike Godwin, staff counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
>''Have they given any thought to the copies of Henry Miller in the
>university library?''
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>Copyright 1994 Time Inc. All rights reserved.
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Nancy J. Mertzel
Abelman, Frayne & Schwab
mertzel[_at_]lawabel.com Received on Wed Dec 07 1994 - 20:11:03 GMT