[473] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Templeton)
Fri Mar 29 04:54:31 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 23:36:49 EST
From: Brad Templeton <brad@looking.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <9103290108.AA00679@world.std.com>; from "Barry Shein" at Mar 28, 91 8:08 pm
The most dangerous part about such policies is that they come back to
haunt the supposedly well-meaning provider.
If you state that you are forbidding offensive material, and you do indeed
actively do some of this forbidding, then you implicitly approve of
everything you don't stop. Stop one dirty joke and not another, and
you indicate not only disapproval for the one, but some sort of approval
for the other. That can be far nastier than the supposed problems of
not stopping one.
State that use must comply with the law, and if need be with the desire
to support education and research, but why say more? It will only cost you.
