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- From: Alfred Heitink <U251010@HNYKUN11.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: C-u-D, #2.09 Censoring of gif's
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 09:56:55 MET
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- *** CuD #2.10: File 5 of 9: Censorship outside the U.S. ***
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- The discussion so far has been concentrated on North America, but I would like
- to maken another point. In the USA a lot of BBS are censored. But because all
- those networks are interconnected and the NSF is an American organisation the
- 'American' problem is exported, the values and American way of life are
- exported. It isn't simply owning the computers or networks or not.
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- It isn't possible for me as a European to download X rated pictures. from
- European sites. Everybody must be able to get access to information,
- uncensored. I don't like that people with other ideas are modifying my
- information. No access to X rated pictures? So what?... But what is next ....
- You can point out that it is only a technical problem. simply ignored.
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- some messages from ip sites in finland.
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- -=-=-=-JYU.FI -=-=-=-
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- Sorry, we had to remove the gifs.
- NSFnet people complained that this activity is overloading the
- NA <-> Scandinavia line.
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- I'll check if it is possible to make GIFs available for scandinavian sites
- or just for Finnish sites.
-
- -jme
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- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JYU.FI =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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- The average usage of the Finland/Sweden 64kb line has lately been over 70% --
- this means that it will have to be upgraded to a 2M line (costing over k$25
- per month) very shortly. Even one ftp connection will eat up the available
- bandwidth very effectively.
-
- Finland is supposedly the only Scandinavian country with more stuff being
- sent out than being pumped in. A recent traffic study of the Australia-USA
- line showed that a major portion of the traffic was actually ftps to a big
- GIF site in Finland !
-
- Of course, one can argue that this is the American's problem, why did they
- have to go and censor all their GIF sites, forcing everyone from the rest of
- the world to crowd here to get their pictures ?
-
- The people at NSFNet have informed us in no uncertain terms that if we don't
- do anything about it, they will pull our plug -- permanently. With these kinds
- of terrorist tactics, we have no choice but to close the GIF archives...
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- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LUT.FI =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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- I have been TOLD to remove all GIF pictures on LUT.FI and have also done that.
- This is all due to overload on our local line from Lappeenranta to Espoo and
- from thereon to the States and Australia.
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- Please, DO NOT upload pictures here any more. All pictures will be removed as
- soon as they are found.
-
- Kimmo Suominen
- System Manager
- E-mail: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi
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