Carnegie Mellon Computer Network: Difference between revisions

From Censorpedia

No edit summary
 
(2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
====Date: [[:Category:1985 - 1995|1985 - 1995]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Date: [[:Category:1994|1994]]====


====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]====
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====


====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]]====


====Medium: [[:Category:Electronic Media|Electronic Media]] [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]====
====Medium: [[:Category:Internet|Internet]]====
----
----
'''Artist:''' Usenet news groups dealing with sex (i.e. alt.binary.erotica.*)
'''Artist:''' Usenet news groups dealing with sex (i.e. alt.binary.erotica.*)
Line 17: Line 17:
'''Description of Artwork:'''  
'''Description of Artwork:'''  


'''The Incident:''' CMU's Vice President of Computing Services, Bill Arms, made the decision to pull internet bboards pertaining to sex (i.e. netnews.alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*, netnews.alt.sex.stories, etc.) from being access by users with accounts on CMU's computer network, Andrew. This was done in haste and without obtaining proper feedback from the student body. The decision was based on fear of breaking Pennsylvania's state pornography and obcenity laws.
'''The Incident:''' CMU's Vice President of Computing Services, Bill Arms, made the decision to pull internet bboards pertaining to sex (i.e. netnews.alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*, netnews.alt.sex.stories, etc.) from being access by users with accounts on CMU's computer network, Andrew. This was done in haste and without obtaining proper feedback from the student body. The decision was based on fear of breaking Pennsylvania's state pornography and obscenity laws.


'''Results of Incident:''' The bboards were indeed banned to Andrew users although a few of the text only bboards were not banned. It was mostly the bboards containing encoded binary picture files of erotic material that were banned. A student free speech protest was held.
'''Results of Incident:''' The bboards were indeed banned to Andrew users although a few of the text only bboards were not banned. It was mostly the bboards containing encoded binary picture files of erotic material that were banned. A student free speech protest was held.
Line 23: Line 23:
'''Source:''' Dillon Lin. I am a student at CMU, other info includes the campus newspaper, Tartan. There is a WEB site on Andrew as well as local bboards discussing the incident.
'''Source:''' Dillon Lin. I am a student at CMU, other info includes the campus newspaper, Tartan. There is a WEB site on Andrew as well as local bboards discussing the incident.


[[Category:1985 - 1995]]
[[Category:1994]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:1990s]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:20th century]]
[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:United States]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Pittsburgh]]
[[Category:Explicit Sexuality]]
[[Category:Explicit Sexuality]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:Internet]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:Electronic Media]]
[[Category:Electronic Media]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:]]
[[Category:Usenet news groups dealing with sex (i.e. alt.binary.erotica.*)]]


__NOTOC__
__NOTOC__

Latest revision as of 15:13, 5 August 2011

Date: 1994

Region: North America

Subject: Explicit Sexuality

Medium: Internet


Artist: Usenet news groups dealing with sex (i.e. alt.binary.erotica.*)

Confronting Bodies: CMU SysAdmin Vs. Student Body

Dates of Action: November 1994

Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA., USA

Description of Artwork:

The Incident: CMU's Vice President of Computing Services, Bill Arms, made the decision to pull internet bboards pertaining to sex (i.e. netnews.alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*, netnews.alt.sex.stories, etc.) from being access by users with accounts on CMU's computer network, Andrew. This was done in haste and without obtaining proper feedback from the student body. The decision was based on fear of breaking Pennsylvania's state pornography and obscenity laws.

Results of Incident: The bboards were indeed banned to Andrew users although a few of the text only bboards were not banned. It was mostly the bboards containing encoded binary picture files of erotic material that were banned. A student free speech protest was held.

Source: Dillon Lin. I am a student at CMU, other info includes the campus newspaper, Tartan. There is a WEB site on Andrew as well as local bboards discussing the incident.