Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A
(Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:00PM (BeauHD)
from the then-vs-now dept.)
- Reference: 0186061020
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/07/168247/campus-censorship-wars-25-years-after-a-slashdot-qa
- Source link:
Slashdot reader [1]carlk22 writes:
> In February 2001, Slashdot readers [2]asked Carl Kadie about censorship and privacy at colleges, and he [3]answered . Now Kadie, who founded the Computers and Academic Freedom project at EFF in 1991, has written its history. In [4]Part 1 , Ohio State kicks a student off its network, then out of school, after a prank routes his "fuck you" into rec.aquaria, and a supercomputing center fires a student over an email from saddam@iraq.bunker.gov. In [5]Part 2 , Nebraska bans the project's own newsletter, the FBI asks a conference attendee to show them his leg, and Playboy calls. The original archive is [6]on GitHub .
[1] https://slashdot.org/~carlk22
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/02/14/1723226/ask-carl-kadie-about-censorship-and-privacy-at-colleges
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/03/02/1614248/carl-kadie-responds
[4] https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/sex-censorship-and-the-1990s-fight-over-campus-computing-part-1-159d90b143fd
[5] https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/sex-censorship-and-the-1990s-fight-over-campus-computing-part-2-9956fdaf2f1a
[6] https://github.com/CarlKCarlK/CAF
> In February 2001, Slashdot readers [2]asked Carl Kadie about censorship and privacy at colleges, and he [3]answered . Now Kadie, who founded the Computers and Academic Freedom project at EFF in 1991, has written its history. In [4]Part 1 , Ohio State kicks a student off its network, then out of school, after a prank routes his "fuck you" into rec.aquaria, and a supercomputing center fires a student over an email from saddam@iraq.bunker.gov. In [5]Part 2 , Nebraska bans the project's own newsletter, the FBI asks a conference attendee to show them his leg, and Playboy calls. The original archive is [6]on GitHub .
[1] https://slashdot.org/~carlk22
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/02/14/1723226/ask-carl-kadie-about-censorship-and-privacy-at-colleges
[3] https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/03/02/1614248/carl-kadie-responds
[4] https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/sex-censorship-and-the-1990s-fight-over-campus-computing-part-1-159d90b143fd
[5] https://medium.com/@carlmkadie/sex-censorship-and-the-1990s-fight-over-campus-computing-part-2-9956fdaf2f1a
[6] https://github.com/CarlKCarlK/CAF