[48385] in Cypherpunks
Re: "German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Sun Jan 28 21:15:55 1996
From: sameer <sameer@nic.ai>
To: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 18:08:31 -0800 (PST)
Cc: olmur@dwarf.bb.bawue.de, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <310c0c26.30666226@smtp.ix.netcom.com> from "John Lull" at Jan 29, 96 01:10:39 am
>
> Are you saying that, if I ran a bookstore, and accepted international
> mail orders, I would have to screen every order to ensure I did not
> ship something offensive to the German government? And if I did fill
> such an order, and without ever having set foot in Germany, I could be
> arrested on my next trip to Europe, extradited to Germany, and
> imprisoned for doing something that is constitutionally protected in
> the US?
When I worked for Walnut Creek CDROM they had to remove
"Castle Wolfenstein" from one of their CDs because they wouldn't have
been able to ship to Germany if they didn't.
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