Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: Academia fails again Message-ID: <9507110935.0DGQM00@support.com> References: Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35/PRIMP 1.56p Distribution: world Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 09:35:05 -0700 Lines: 41 ccpes@sun.cse.bris.ac.uk (Paul Smee) >henry wrote: >when faced with censorship, they're happy to cave in to it, and >even to enact censorship on their own, as long as the person >censored is unpopular or the person asking for it has deep pockets >and a nasty reputation. Aych was speaking about the tendency of our society in general. >Now, now. See Martin's response. In addition, note that the CoS >complaint was not that Martin was 'talking nasty', but that he was >'violating their copyright'. Copyright violation *is* something the >Uni is against, and our Unix admin is not up on this CoS unpleasantness >and so initially acted on the assumption that there was a copyright >violation involved - i.e lock the account while checking it out. At >that point, the possibility that it might be an attempt at censorship >had not been raised with, or occurred to, our admin guy. Not a totally unreasonable initial reaction. >I personally am not going to discuss this in too much detail, as there >doesn't seem to me to be much profit in giving the CoS lawyers a >detailed description of how our internal thinking is going. >Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK I think you folks did a good job getting to the bottom of this and getting Martin back on line. He's been of great assistance supplying information and insight to thousands of readers on ars. Thanks, +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"