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FC: A Utah university student's firsthand lesson in

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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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