Alex wrote:
>Well... the problem is going to arise one day - if we know the content
>of a resource is considered "bad" to show to a particular user, should
>we admit to that user that the resource exists at all?
Actually, this exactly what happened to my on-line documentary,
`The Flight of Ducks' in 1998.
Although the site had been running since 1995,
it was deleted from the RMIT University server (in Melbourne)
when the University Research Ethics Committee became politicised
during the `One Nation' campaign.
Their explanation was that they suspected
that it might contain secret/sacred Aboriginal material (it didn't).
At the same time, it was hosted by the National Library of Australia and
Cinemedia so the action was a useless attempt at political censorship.
The site deployed PICS for the purposes of cultural sensitivity
- but alas - to no avail.
The important point in relation to DC. Publisher was
(after 8 months of censorship)
that the Ethics Committee insisted that a recourse statement
be attached to the site as hosted by RMIT University.
In this case any recourse action was to be through the University, as
publisher.
If anyone is interested in cultural sensitivity and the politcs of control,
the story is told on-line at:
http://www.cinemedia.net/FOD/FOD0940.html
Regards
Simon Pockley
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