[48323] in Cypherpunks
"German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Pugh)
Sun Jan 28 00:09:19 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 23:59:03 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Alan Pugh <ampugh@mci.newscorp.com>
>"Germany's biggest Internet provider has blocked access to a Santa Cruz
>computer service that makes available neo-Nazi propaganda in another sign
>of the growing tension over material available on the Internet.
>
>"Deutsche Telekom, Germany's national phone company, blocked its 1 million
>customers Thursday from gaining access to Internet "Web sites" maintained
>by customers of Web Communications of Santa Cruz.
At least my local paper got it right in the AP article they published on this...
"The block - analogeous to the government ordering a bookstore to take every
book by a given publisher off the shelves because it objected to one title -
was imposed Thursday."
