[132] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NSF censoring sites around the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kmeyer@usc.edu)
Mon Nov 12 15:02:15 1990
To: alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 11:44:24 -0800
From: kmeyer@usc.edu
From: Alan Crosswell <alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu>
EVERYTHING has potential research value. Truly innovative research
happens when someone thinks of something unique that hasn't been
thought about before. Therefore, you can't pre-judge ANY material as
inappropriate.
Let me soften my statement to say that "binaries of X games have no obvious
greater research value than the archives of alt.sex.bestiality."
In any case I think we're in violent agreement that censorship is censorship,
and the NSF is acting in an inappropriate fashion torwards the academic
computing world.
Kraig
