Discussion Example - Carnegie Mellon University Censorship Row

Carnegie Mellon University is one of the leading Universities in the US and on the Internet (it is the home of the remarkable Lycos web search engine for example). It also happened to carry several of the Internet's more controversial newsgroups such as alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*, alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless, alt.sex.*, rec.arts.erotica . . .

DISCLAIMER: While this information is both selected and selective, it should not be construed to represent the opinions of the author, the group, nor of the University of NSW. The intention is to provide information for reasoned discussion and debate.

The story of the banning and partial reinstatement of those newsgroups is located at:

The Carnegie Mellon Censorship Row

This page established by Charles Willock on behalf of a group interested in airing issues of censorship / freedom of speech etc. Last updated 24th October 1995.

E-mail to: charlesw@cse.unsw.edu.au