Acbosg.543
net.news
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!cbosg!dale
Fri Dec 18 13:05:29 1981
news groups of "questionable" content
Some of you may have been reading the discussion in net.jokes regarding
censorship of news, etc., which was triggered my remark questioning
jokes of an ethnic nature. The result of the discussion was the creation
of a new news group, net.jokes.q, for "questionable" jokes. This, in
my mind, seems to skirt the issue of whether such material should be
distributed via the net, and stored on individual machines. I personally
think that material which cannot be aired over the TV or printed in
the NYT should not be stored or distributed via netnews. I think that
it is very likely that a minority individual could file a formal
complaint regarding such material. Since I have no desire to become
part of an EEOC suit against Bell Labs, the machines that I am
responsible for (cbosg*) will not accept nor redistribute any news
for the newsgroup net.jokes.q or any similar newsgroup in the future.
I am sure that many of you out there think that people like myself are
legislating what you may read. This is not the case. If you want to read
such material, get a login on a machine that accepts it. My primary
concern is not to force you to believe what I think is right/wrong/
offensive/inoffensive, but to keep myself and BTL out of Affirmative
Action trouble.
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