Sender: Heiko Recktenwald <•••@••.•••> On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:09:21 -0800 you said: > >Comment: none of this should come as any surprise--we see the trends >in China, in Germany, and ultimately in our own Communications Decency >Act, which gives other countries the message that regulation is all >right. The nations have all drunk our wine, therefore they are mad. Believe it or not, we dont have any more antipornlaws than any other country here and there hasnt been an only case, where any state authority has ever ordered somebody to remove anything from any site. Eff know better, but some people like my country the way they see it... Its different.....:)) Heiko @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Note from moderator: When I referred to Germany, I wasn't claiming that they suppressed pornography. I was thinking of the famous recent case in which a Bavarian court told CompuServe to block newsgroups that had messages denying the Holocaust. Andy @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sender: John Whiting <•••@••.•••> Subject: cr> Singapore Internet restrictions I suspect that two recent developments have set off the autocrats: 1. The rapid growth of the "civilian" Internet into something worth worrying about; and 2. The technologies of control, which have been on the workbench a long time. These screening methods don't spring up overnight. They didn't have to drink our wine; our entrepeneurs have been selling them the barrels for years. John Whiting Diatribal Press London ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
