[49566] in Cypherpunks
Re: Free Speech Mirrors hit Toronto Star
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Philp)
Thu Feb 8 20:05:34 1996
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:04:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Philp <bplib@wat.hookup.net>
To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602082158.QAA22922@opine.cs.umass.edu>
On Thu, 8 Feb 1996 lmccarth@cs.umass.edu wrote:
> Tim Philp writes:
> > Canada's largest newspaper, The Toronto Star today published an
> > account of the Ernst Zundel affair in the Fast Forward Section of the
> > paper. Net columnist K. K. Campbell, in what looks like a 1500 word
> > article, (I didn't count them) gives a good account of the German attempt
> > to censor the Internet. He even mentions the fact that the MIT mirror was
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ordered removed, but gives no details.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Is this a reporting error, or did I miss something ?
>
The paragraph in question was as follows:
"The EFC says at least 10 mirrors sites have appeared, including ones at
Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and MIT. (The one at the
University of Massachusetts was ordered removed.)"
I don't know the truth of this statement but the article was very
anti-censorship and struck a pro-freedom stance.
K.K. Campbell, the author of the piece, is eye weekly's net.editor and
Webmaster (http://www.interlog.com/eye)
Tim Philp
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