From: ped@panix.com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt) Newsgroups: alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.politics.sex Subject: From TIME: Crackdown at Carnegie Mellon Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 21:55:16 -0500 Organization: TIME Magazine Lines: 34 Message-ID: Note: this is copyright material from this week's TIME magazine, posted with permission. For permission to repost, e-mail ped@well.com NETWATCH Crackdown at Carnegie Mellon For years universities have turned a blind eye to the Internet traffic passing through their computer systems -- including the sexually explicit words and pictures in such USENET newsgroups as alt.sex and rec.arts.erotica. Those days may be over, at least at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. According to a new policy scheduled to go into effect this week, C.M.U. will no longer distribute dozens of sexually oriented bulletin boards -- even those that are primarily discussion groups. Experts in constitutional law say C.M.U.'s new policy may be ill advised. ''The idea that you can't discuss sex in a university is absurd,'' says Mike Godwin, staff counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ''Have they given any thought to the copies of Henry Miller in the university library?'' Copyright 1994 Time Inc. All rights reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------- Philip Elmer-DeWitt ped@well.com TIME Magazine ped@panix.com philiped@aol.com Read TIME on America Online, where we get paid to take abuse. Our newest venue: http://www.timeinc.com/ Get it while it's free! -- Philip Elmer-DeWitt ped@well.com TIME Magazine ped@panix.com philiped@aol.com Read TIME on America Online, where we get paid to take abuse. Our newest venue: http://www.timeinc.com/ Get it while it's free!