Adecvax.206 net.misc utzoo!decvax!minow Mon May 3 22:18:19 1982 Free speech and net.jokes The suggestion that, since public institutions have "policies against discrimination on grounds of race ..." they are justified in censoring news/jokes/whathaveyou is contrary to my right as a U.S. citizen to mouth off on any subject whatsoever. The Swedish equivalent of ARPA/USENET news, called COM, had this problem when the data inspection board said that, because of the lack of security on the system, nobody could discuss "their own or other's" health, religion, or political beliefs. It was subsequently pointed out that this is contrary to Swedish constitutional guarantees of free speech (similar to those in the US) and the rule was subsequently revised. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.