[10508] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Providers and Content [was Re: Debating the NII "Truisms"]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Fri Feb 25 19:25:51 1994
From: "Stan Barber" <sob@tmc.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 14:26:18 -0600
In-Reply-To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Cc: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com, com-priv@psi.com
I will see if I can get a clear statement on the proposed policies and
mechanisms for regulating content on the "freenet". I don't have one at my
fingertips. I do know there has been some concern about what "minors" might
be able to get access to via the "freenet"....While I know and understand the
history of the education system in regulating content, the "freenet" as I
understand it in Houston is supposed to serve more than just those "minors"
involved in the local educational system.
I have some concern that this environment will follow the path of Prodigy or
CompuServe in regulating content and I have objections to that in what I
believe a "freenet" to be. I would feel differently if it had some other
label that "freenet"... so perhaps I am just hung up on that.
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