[82814] in Cypherpunks
Re: index.html
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Sun Jul 6 02:07:16 1997
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 01:39:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@ssz.com
In-Reply-To: <199707042234.RAA16340@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
>
> BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany on Friday became the first country to
> pass a law regulating the free-wheeling global electronic space of
> the Internet.
>
> Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government says the so-called multimedia
> law creates legal clarity that will help boost commercialization of
> cyberspace and combats illegal uses of the Internet such as for
> pornography.
>
Guess Mr. Kohl never heard of the CDA, or Malaysia's "multimedia laws." Or
any of dozens of attempts to muzzle the Net, documented two years ago in a
Humran Rights Watch report. Sigh.
-Declan
