[net.followup] Government interference in Research

jd@ttidca.UUCP (Joe Davida) (11/06/84)

	Gentlemen, I read CCR's article regarding government interference in
	public and educational networks and was shocked to by its contents!
	My shock is not due to any restictions the proposed amendment would
	impose upon any of my accademic activities, as they are very limited,
	but to the precedent that such an amendment would set, if adopted.
	Which of our freedoms, that until now have been considered
	"fundamental", will be the next target of government censorship?
	I came to this country in 1970 and went to school, studied and worked
	hard to earn an M.S. degree. I am proud to say that I am now a citizen
	of the U.S. I escaped from a country ruled by a military dictatorship,
	without any freedoms to speak of. The ideals which I have come to
	admire and which have formed the foundation of the American form of
	government, are being destroyed by members of the government, whose
	attitude towards freedom are more in tune with the very dictatorship
	from which I escaped. If 'I' find the actions of Senator Helms
	shocking and un-American, how much more so those Americans born in
	America, who have enjoyed such freedoms all their lives?!!

ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (11/08/84)

> 
> 	Gentlemen, I read CCR's article regarding government interference in
> 	public and educational networks and was shocked to by its contents!
>
Shocked?  Uninformed, you are.  The proposed policy is and has been in
effect for information transfer other then computer networks (such as
International Technical Conferences).  It's that they just realized that
there is INFORMATION going around on computer nets.

-Ron