[93123] in Cypherpunks
Re: (eternity) autonomous agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Womack)
Tue Jan 13 10:55:19 1998
From: Thomas Womack <thomas.womack@merton.oxford.ac.uk>
To: eternity <eternity@internexus.net>,
cypherpunks <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:24:57 -0000
Reply-To: Thomas Womack <thomas.womack@merton.oxford.ac.uk>
Ross Anderson wrote:
>A virtual datahaven could be constructed eaily provided you knew how to
>index controversial matter.
>
>Publish the rude things about the Prophet Mohammed on a server in Israel,
>the anti-Serb rants in Croatia, the kiddyporn in Sweden, the violence in
>America, the Nazi hate speech in Syria and the anti-scientology stuff in
>Germany.
I suspect you will still run into things which are illegal anywhere;
national-security stuff can be handled provided you've got a complete list
of pairs of unfriendly nations, but I don't think (eg) the more extreme sort
of kiddyporn is legal *anywhere*.
Tom
