Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!gnu From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Need for Stargate screening? Message-ID: <1917@sun.uucp> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 06:12:14 EST Article-I.D.: sun.1917 Posted: Sun Jan 6 06:12:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 02:48:28 EST References: <494@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 17 Lauren, why are you trying to make a perfectly good Usenet distribution service into an electronic Time Magazine? If Time Magazine was good enough for us, we'd buy it at a newsstand, or have them mail it to us. Reread "Bug Jack Barron" by Norman Spinrad for an example of a live public-access nationwide video "issues discussion" and how tempting it is to exercise covert control. Look at the Washington Times for a low-tech example. I certainly appreciate the technical and liason work you're doing, but I really dislike your efforts to tie it to "forced moderation". Please let the net decide what it wants to send over this medium. If the case for forced moderation is good enough, it will stand on its own merits. Is there anyone at Turner Broadcasting (or whatever subsidiary we are dealing with) who sees any of this discussion? Will any of them be at Usenix?