Fwd: Re: IP: Univ of Mass says professor's racy Web site was "harrassment?"

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

While I substantially disagree with Dave, I leave it to you all .. djf


> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 15:35:28 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () brandenburg com>
>
>
> At 06:20 PM 4/8/00 -0400, David Farber wrote:
> > > Seems to me it only is "harassment" if you're forced to look at 
> > > it, and maybe not then.
>
> Harassment is the creation of a charged environment.  The social 
> force creating by that charging impedes professional conduct.
>
> This does not require that the target of the harassment be directly 
> present during the offensive behavior, since the target may well 
> suffer the results later.
>
> > > Still, there's a long history of bogus "harassment" charges being 
> > > used to censor political speech:
>
> And there is a long history of VALID harassment charges.
>
>
> What is most significant about the articles afforded through this IP 
> posting is that we are given nowhere near enough information to form 
> meaningful opinions.  The articles are quite superficial.
>
> Source material and principals are not available for comment.  So 
> what we get is the summary "there were objections to material and it 
> was removed".  The result is therefore really a Rorschach test for 
> the reader's own biases on the topic.
>
> For example, keep in mind that the web pages were using university 
> resources and universities have always had SOME restrictions on the 
> use of their resources.
>
> d/
>
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