Ayale-com.649 net.news utzoo!decvax!yale-com!galloway Thu Dec 24 20:48:35 1981 USENET Policy As netnews administrator for zero (0) machines, i second Adam's request for at least some net discussion of the issues submitted for consideration. Also, just plain users should have some voice in the matter. One thing which worries me is the regs for posting something "offensive". OK, who decides? Jeez, people hasn't anyone else ever looked into free speech issues? Yes, i know this isn't exactly speech and that this stuff is paid for by someone in the end.Still, the whole point behind the 1st Amendment is that NO ONE is really entitiled to decree "i don't like that and/or think it is obscene so no one should hear it." Yes, some of jokes.q were offensive to me (for the record i am white, atheist but brought up protestant, 21, wear glasses, and lived fo 20 yars in th South. i think that covers most of the possible groups to which i belong which could be "offended") but as stated, a site or user doesn't have to accept such groups. Why does the idea of a committee to watch over everyone to make sure we don't do anything bad remind me of the Moron Minority and the Congressional Un-American Activities Comms of the '50s? Also, given that a supervisory committee for USENET is needed and established (seemingly contrary to the above, i do support the idea of such a committee on the grounds that some final arbiters to problems such as is it net.mc, net.cycle, net.motorc, etc. are needed) how do people get on it? Volunteers? Election over the net (a new group; net.soapbox/ballotbox)? Fiat? Too bad i'll be missing the rest of the discussion, what with break and all. If someone could do up a summary of the discussion over the next 2 weeks and post it about Jan20, i'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it. tom galloway @ yale-comix ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.