Xref: utzoo soc.culture.jewish:8558 news.sysadmin:1803 comp.mail.misc:1449 rec.humor.d:1270 news.misc:2239 misc.misc:4075 soc.culture.misc:485 soc.misc:953 comp.mail.uucp:2446 news.admin:4164 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!cognito!randolph From: randolph%cognito@Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.misc,rec.humor.d,news.misc,misc.misc,soc.culture.misc,soc.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: bigoted racist misuse of email and computer accounts must be dealt with Summary: Power and information Message-ID: <80023@sun.uucp> Date: 3 Dec 88 19:42:46 GMT References: <10676@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <1548@buengc.BU.EDU> <27015@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: randolph@sun.UUCP (Randolph Fritz) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 16 I also oppose the monitoring and censorship of mail. Because of the structure of Usenet, because systems under our control carry the mail, we have the power to monitor and interfere with with private electronic correspondence. The attempt to purify our network of bigotry, however, can only end by making the net useless for the discussion of bigotry. Furthermore, having established the power structure necessary to control the contents of the network, that power structure will go on to seek greater control. We will end with a network that expresses only the ideas accepted by that power structure. I say that the practice of censorship, for that is what is proposed, is an abuse of power and I say to hell with it! If we are to control traffic on this network, let us control, at most, traffic volume without regard to contents (as the segregation of talk.* groups enables). ++Randolph Fritz sun!randolph || randolph@sun.com