[82809] in Cypherpunks
Re: index.html
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu)
Sat Jul 5 23:42:05 1997
From: bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 23:05:19 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu
Anonymous wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
> > GERMANY PASSES WORLD'S FIRST CYBERSPACE LAW
> >
> > graphic July 4, 1997
> > Web posted at: 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT)
> >
> > BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany on Friday became the first
> country to
> > pass a law regulating the free-wheeling global electronic space
> of
> > the Internet.
>
> So does that mean Germany is regulating all of the Internet? Or just
> networked computers and operators inside Germany?
Which cypherpunk said that he wouldn't go to a conference to get
arrested for making a funny comment about a resurgence of fascism in
Germany?
