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(fwd) Re: Racism on the Internet
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From: [email protected] (Michael Dillon)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,alt.internet.media-coverage
Subject: Re: Racism on the Internet
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 18:11:51 +0000
Organization: Memra Software Inc., Armstrong, B.C., Canada
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This is forwarded from can.infohighway. Note the quote from Rutkowski
at the bottom. This info should be more generally know on the net.
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>
> IN>[email protected] (Harvey Goldberg) writes:
>
> >I work for the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
> >I am currently doing research on the use of the
> >Internet for the propagation of hate material.
> >The purpose of the research is to determine what
> >measures could be considered to control the use
> >of the Net for this type of purpose.
>
> >I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has
> >any views, information or comments on this
> >subject or who know of anywhere on the Internet
> >where this matter is discussed.
>
> According to Tony Rutkowski, Executive Director of the Internet
> Society, "The Internet from a regulatory standpoint falls into the
> category of private value-added networks, and in most countries under
> the treaty provisions of the ITU, as well as the GATT, these are
> networks that are outside the purview of government. To the extent
> that there is any kind of obligation by governments, it is to allow
> such networks to exist on a competitive basis". <Internet World,
> January 1995>.
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