From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Need updates for "Banned Computer Material 1992"
Originator: kadie@eff.org
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:11:09 GMT

Banned Book Week is coming soon and I'd like create a second "Banned
Computer Material" list. Part of that list will be updates from last
year's list. If you can update me on the following incidents (at
Boston U., U of Toledo, Western Washington U. U. of Washington, Iowa
State U. (2), Penn State, U. of Texas, James Madison U.) please post
or send me email.

- Carl

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Computer files at Boston University that anyone finds offensive or
annoying -- The rules at Boston University prohibit a computer user
from "making accessible offensive [or] annoying ... material".
(cafv01n10) 

The alt.sex newsgroup at the University of Toledo

More than a dozen newsgroups, including alt.sex, at Western Washington
University -- They were removed from Western Washington University on
the order of one person, the Vice Provost for "information and
communication".  Alt.sex remains at the University of Washington, but
other newsgroups were removed right before a negative article was
printed in the Seattle _Post_Intelligencer_.  (cafv01n33, cafv01n36,
cafv01n35, cafv01n41)

Rude articles at Iowa State University -- On-line rudeness is
prohibited at Iowa State. A student was reprimanded for posting a rude
article to the net. (This policy may be under revision). (cafv01n38)

The alt.sex.* hierarchy on PSUVM, Penn State's main general purpose
computer -- (cafv01n34)

Email or Netnews articles that "bring discredit to the University [of
Texas] or the [Computer Science] Department." (cafv01n37)

Offensive messages at the University of Newcastle -- (cafv01n39)

Email containing offensive material at James Madison University -- (cafv01n39)

Most on-line discussion of sex and drugs at Iowa State University --
Iowa State University labels all newsgroup as either "limited list",
"standard list", or "full list". This labeling is based on the name
and description of each newsgroup and not on its actual content. The
standard list excludes most discussion of sex and drugs. The plan is
that ,starting January 6, 1991, users on public access machines will
be restricted to the standard list. (See recent
alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk articles.)
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ANNOTATED REFERENCES

(All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)

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banned.1991
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A list of computer material that was banned at universities during (or
before) 1991. It summarizes incidents and policies at Ohio State U.,
the U. of Illinois (two campuses), Case Western U., Boston U., U. of
Waterloo, U.  of Toledo, Western Washington U., Iowa State U.,
Pennsylvania State U., U. of Texas, U. of Newcastle, James Madison U.,
U. of Wisconsin, and others.

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These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/banned.1991

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom banned.1991
-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
 =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.admin.policy,alt.censorship,soc.college