[1024] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Thank you for your comments / The shibboleth of censorship?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue Jul 16 15:02:33 1991
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 15:00:40 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
Cc: craig@sics.se, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow's message of Tue, 16 Jul 91 07:20:25 MST <9107161420.AA06503@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
>From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
>How are standards set for what is OK to put on an Internet archive site?
>What body sets them? Where are they published? How to system administrators
>and users find out about them?
A related and more fundamental question is who should be responsible
to enforce this? The people who spin bits on their own disks, or the
people who actually use the net to transfer them to their system?
An analogy: if someone uses a govt phone to call a relative
long-distance to chit-chat who is considered at fault? The person
making the call, or the person who answered the phone when it rang?
Somewhere in all this there's that odor of the hapless victim who
couldn't stop himself from accessing the archive in question and the
whole "go after the tempter" mentality.
-Barry Shein
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