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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:14:43 -0400 To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: CyberPatrol bans Computer underground Digest Sender: owner-fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu Reply-To: declan@well.com X-FC-URL: Fight-Censorship is at http://www.eff.org/~declan/fc/

For as long as I can remember, Northern Illinois University criminal justice prof. Jim Thomas has been editing an online newsletter called Computer underground Digest. In it, he's chronicled the hacker wars, the crypto battles, and the fight over the CDA. It's been an invaluable resource to the Net-community. In fact, you'll see a lot of fight-censorship posts and articles end up in CuD.

Now it's been blocked by censorware. Jim's offense? According to CyberPatrol, he's a "Militant Extremist."

-Declan

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Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 22:45:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Thomas <jthomas3@sun.soci.niu.edu> To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: CyberPatrol bans CuD & Crypt Newsletter

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:

(quoting from George Smith):

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Huh! Thanks to your page I've just found out Crypt Newsletter is banned by the fine folk at Cyber Patrol for being "militant extremists."

George also forwarded the following to me:

Jim:

I suppose you already know this but I just found out Crypt Newsletter and CuD were blocked by CyberPatrol and NetNanny.

Crypt Newsletter for being Militant/Extreme CuD for being Militant/Extreme/violence/Profanity

Whatever else CuD might be, I'm at a loss to even guess how "militant," "extreme," and "violent" characterize it. But, some profanity does slip in, especially in legal documents and similar resources.

jt

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