NetWorking
Peruvian rebel hostage crisis began at the Japanese embassy in December, Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement sympathisers posted an MRTA web site, the Solidarity Page, on the school's computer.
"We're proud that our students are part of that communications network. We don't see any reason to get rid of it because it's controversial," said Dan Hallin, chairman of the Communications Department at UCSD.
This outraged right wing groups like the Heritage Foundation. "it is outrageous that groups who have attacked Americans repeatedly in the past were allowed to worm their way into a situation where American taxpayers subsidised their propaganda on the Internet," insists Jim Phillips, terrorism specialist at Heritage. "I think that UCSD has a hard time explaining why they are subsidising terrorists."
In fact, by closing down its FARC-EP site, SUNY-Binghamton may have violated America's First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech. "The question turns on whether the university is censoring students' sites based on content or whether the university has a neutral, non-content-based rule, " said James Dempsey, senior staff counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit Internet civil liberties group. "If it looks like the government singled out this one site because of its content, then it's impermissible under the First Amendment."
On a similar note, Carl Kadie, president of Computers in Academic Freedom, said that SUNY-Binghamton was reinventing an old censorship trick that universities used to restrict unpopular speakers from off-campus. In 1958, for example, the University of Illinois decreed that "no employee of the university shall allow any subversive, seditious and un-American organisation the use of university facilities for publicising the activities of that organisation." Kadie said that in the 1950s, the University of Illinois was more the norm than the exception. Many state universities maintained similar policies. * [JD] Source: The Real Revolution: Net Guerrillas, Elizabeth Frantz, Time-Warner's Pathfinder web site, July 21, 1997 Mexican labour newsletter
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Following the 29 July eviction of three squats in East Berlin, there are now almost no squats in Berlin anymore. Whatever happens next can be read about on the "HaeuserMob" website. Most information is in German.
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