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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: A Utah university student's firsthand lesson in
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- From: "Axel H. Horns" <axel.horns@fitug.de>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:34:21 +0100
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:45:14 -0500
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: A Utah university student's firsthand lesson in censorship
Reply-to: declan@well.com
[This is an interesting case. It's a public university so its rules
must follow First Amendment freedom-of-speech principles. The rule in
question bars students from viewing "objectionable" web pages. --DBM]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18070.html
FIRST-HAND LESSON IN CENSORSHIP
9:00 a.m. A student at Southern Utah University is booted out of
the computer lab for viewing a site about Adolf Hitler. She says
she was doing research. The university said she was violating the
school's Internet policy. By Declan McCullagh. in POLITICS
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