Web porn ban proposed at Cal Poly
A professor at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo (aka, Cal Poly) is proposing a campus ban on internet pornography. "Linda Vanasupa, the chairwoman of the materials-engineering department, plans to file a resolution with the Academic Senate to prohibit using the university's computers or its Internet connection for viewing pornographic material. Academics and students would need permission from the university president to look at pornography online." The resolution would also cover online hate literature. The campus provost says the resolution "is fundamentally in opposition to the spirit of inquiry that is critical to the academy. You're basically looking at a judgment of prior restraint that would have a chilling effect on inquiry and discourse on campus." Not to mention the chilling effect on looking at naked pictures, though I imagine horny engineering students could probably figure a way around the ban.
