Re: "TCP Port Lock-down" & Free-speech @ UCB

From: Aron Roberts <aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 11:18:56 PDT

   David Reed has posted a correction to his blog entry which
triggered this discussion:

   http://www.satn.org/archive/2005_05_01_archive.html#111523014616104729

>DPR at 1:58 PM [url]:
>
>Correction: UC Berkeley policy is not campus wide, merely departmental
>
>I apologize to all of UC Berkeley for including the full campus in
>my comments below. My information from several Berkeley sources was
>not completely correct. All of UC Berkeley has not adopted this
>policy - it is a departmental thing. The CS department definitely
>has implemented that policy, however, and perhaps other departments
>have adopted it as well.
>
>However, the fundamental point remains crucial. If you delegate the
>idea of what is appropriate communications to the IT department of
>the school or department you work in without protest, you have sold
>your right to do research or communicate freely.

FYI,

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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