X-Sender: mm39@post.queensu.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu From: "Michael D. Mehta, Ph.D." Subject: NetNanny shows its true self when pushed Sender: owner-fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Precedence: bulk X-Url: http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/ X-Justiceoncampusurl: http://joc.mit.edu/ In a class on how to surf the web and use e-mail, we decided to write an inflammatory message to NetNanny to see what they were really about. Attached is the short message we sent and the response of Gordon Ross (president and ceo). It is quite amusing. Cheers, Michael ===================================================================== >Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:16:44 -0400 >X-Sender: sps846@qsilver.queensu.ca >To: mm39@post.QueensU.CA >From: sps846@qsilver.queensu.ca >Subject: Re: Reply to: "You sexist pigs!" > >>Return-Path: >>X-Sender: gordonR@mindlink.net (Unverified) >>Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 18:24:27 -0700 >>To: sps846@qsilver.queensu.ca >>From: gordonR@netnanny.com (Gordon Ross) >>Subject: Re: Reply to: "You sexist pigs!" >>Cc: grahamH@netnanny.com >>Content-Length: 3147 >> >>Dear Dr. Mehta: >> >>Thank you for your E-Mail. I have responded to your following message: >> >>>>Dear Netnanny, >>>> >>>>We find your name and logo offensive. The stereotypical portrayal of a >>>>"nanny" is not only elitist but it associates care of children with >>>>traditional gender roles. Get in the nineties! Not all censorship issues >>>>pertaining to the Internet are left-wing, feminist agenda driven. >>>> >>>>The frilly apron is cheap and tacky and does not reflect the reality of >>>>nannyhood. The B&D implications of a subservient female sex slave are truly >>>>disconcerting for a company ostensibly concerned with preserving family >>>>values. >>>> >>>>Yours truly, >>>> >>>>Michael D. Mehta, Ph.D. >>>>and the class of SPS-846 MPA course on the Internet and public policy >>>>School of Policy Studies >>>>Queen's University >>>> >>>> >>>>P.S. Some of my students will soon be on the job market. >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- >>We at Net Nanny are focused on developing and delivering technology to; >>Individuals, Home and Family and Business, that allows them to control >>unwanted or unsolicited material from reaching them in this technological age. >> >>I find it a "waste" of "tax payer" dollars to pay the salaries of >>individuals to conjure up such idiocy with regards to "Net Nanny". It is >>nice to see that whoever wrote this can use their right of "freedom of >>speech" to supply us with this humble opinion. Net Nanny was deleloped to >>"Protect our Children" on the Internet without interfering with our right to >>"Freedom of Speech". >> >>A "Nanny" has always been known as a "protector" of children and family >>throughout the centuries, not just the 90's. Nanny's are not for >>"elitests", as has been expressed here. Many of the working people today >>have Nannys. Not just the affluent. >> >>It is only minds, like the one expressed here, that can come up with such >>degrading descriptions of our logo, while others have described it as a >>non-threatening way of presenting the wonders of the Internet. >> >>As we have to fund ourselves and not depend on "tax" payer dollars to pay >>for our jobs, I find it appaling that a person of your stature is not more >>concerned of letting the students of today know the truth of where the >>future is going. Students graduating today need more than Academics in >>order to survive today. One thing they do not need is the "political >>correctness" education they have been receiving over the last 15 years. >> >>We need more of those who are willing to risk being abused by such diatribe >>that was forwarded to us. >> >>We appreciate the opinion, and you are entitled to it. I just question if >>the time would be better spent on looking at the positive "vs" the negative. >> >>I hope your students are prepared for the new enviroment out here. There >>will no longer be "tenure" jobs in the future. We have paid too much in the >>past for this environment to continue. >> >>Regards, >> >>Gordon Ross >>CEO & President >>TROVE Investment Corporation & >>Net Nanny Ltd. >>Main Floor - 525 Seymour Street >>Vancouver, B.C. Canada >>V6B 3H7 >>Tel: (604) 662-8522 >>E-Mail: gordonR@netnanny.com >>WEB SITE: http://www.netnanny.com/netnanny ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Michael D. Mehta, B.A., M.E.S., Ph.D. Environmental Policy Unit School of Policy Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 (613) 545-6000 extension 5636 (613) 545-6630 FAX E-mail: mm39@post.queensu.ca WWW: http://www.queensu.ca/epu/epu.htm