Re: Crit Crim homepage
Dragan Milovanovic (d-milovanovic@neiu.edu)
Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:17:43
Dear JT: nicely argued! Dragan
At 12:12 AM 6/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>TO: Debra Greaves / Microsystems - Cyber Patrol
>FROM: Jim Thomas / ~critcrim homepage manager
>RE: Banning of http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim
>
>Debra....
>
>Thank you for your phone call today informing me that you had found
>a way to unblock the information on the ASC's Critical Criminology
>Division's homepage while still serving your own commitment to
>blocking the Unabomer manuscript. I appreciate your prompt attention
>to our concerns, and I recognize that you have the unenviable task
>of attempting to balance the safety of children with the principles of
>free speech, academic freedom, and open access to information.
>However, I am still left with several questions:
>
> 1) I note that your own page at:
> http://www.microsys.com/cybernot/default.htm
>indicates that the http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim page
>remains on the cybernot "banned" list. If this message is correct, it
>appears that we are not unblocked. Also, we consider the inclusion of our
>site on your list as damaging to the reputation of the Society, the
>Division, and Northern Illinois University. Given the manner in
>which Microsystems markets Cyber Patrol, there is a rather clear
>implication that blocked sites violate conventional norms of
>decency. We will take you at your word that you have
>removed the blockage, even while noting that retaining the public
>inclusion of us on your "banned" list seems to suggest otherwise.
>
>2) Given your concerns about the Unabomer Manifesto, I am wondering
>if you have applied the same standards to our site that you have to
>others, specifically to nytimes.com and aol.com.
>
>As a professional society, the Critical Criminology Division remains
>committed to cooperation and compromise, especially when dealing
>with complex issues. We appreciate your own apparent willingness to
>act in kind. However, we are not yet assured that the resolution you
>reported has in fact been enacted. I will attempt to contact you
>Friday to discuss this further.
>
>Again, thank you for your prompt attention to our concerns.
>
>
>Jim Thomas, Professor / Sociology/Criminal Justice
>Northern Illinois University / DeKalb, Ill (60115)
>voice: (815) 753-6436 / fax: (815) 753-6302
>email: jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu
>
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