Rory Litwin
writes \”After seven years online, the UCSD
Communication department chair Carol
Padden has censored the project hosted at
burn.ucsd.edu. She has made
her decision against the wishes of the majority of
department faculty
and graduate students and without consulting or even
informing any of
the department faculty or students involved with the
project, reportedly
under pressures from the UC president Richard
Atkinson. No explanation
or justification for the shutdown was given, nor was any
opportunity
for a hearing or reconsideration of the decision. Host
records were
simultaneously removed from campus DNS servers,
rendering burn.ucsd.edu
nonexistent. Only a few hours advance warning was
given to BURN! project
representatives, leaving them no way to even contact
most system users
to inform them of what had happened or to arrange for
moving to another
address.
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