[48502] in Cypherpunks
[FACTS] Germany, or "Oh no not again"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Roessler)
Mon Jan 29 15:37:24 1996
From: Thomas Roessler <Thomas.Roessler@sobolev.rhein.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 18:10:09 +0100 (MET)
Cc: Thomas.Roessler@sobolev.rhein.de (Thomas Roessler)
I had the prosecutor's spokesman on phone today. The result is
that someone gave a hint to the prosecutors which explicitly
mentioned Zundel, T-Online and Compuserve. Consequently, the
prosecutors *had* to start investigations against Zundel,
T-Online and Compuserve. In particular, they are right now
*checking* whether providing internet access is a criminal
offence due to the possibility to gain access to `inciting
material' (the German word is `Volksverhetzung') via the Net.
This means that it is not even clear whether the investigations
against internet providers will be dropped or not; in fact many
people believe that these investigatinos *will* be dropped.
My personal guess about all this is that some net.citizens are
trying to have the prosecutors engaged in absolutely absurd
investigations (or, even better, achieve a court room clash on
this subject) to get some clarification of the legal situation of
the Net in Germany. Quite similar to the RSA T-Shirt story in
the States. ,-)
tlr
