[3448] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: configuring a site to ban porno/violence www access...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Bailly (OPS.Flagstaff) (520)
Mon Nov 4 13:32:13 1996
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:00:19 -0700 (MST)
From: "Jacob Bailly (OPS.Flagstaff) (520)556-7382" <jbailly@cerebus.wr.usgs.gov>
To: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
cc: John Ladwig <jladwig@soils.umn.edu>,
Quantum <quantum@obsidian.cse.fau.edu>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.93.961103174258.9602A-100000@hummingbird.whiteshell.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
The issue here really is simply that there IS no central governing of the
Internet. We in the United States can say that the Internet should be
a place of free speech, but we cannot dictate this outside of our own
borders. I agree that the policies of such nations as Singapore are
anti-productive, but it is not fair to say that the Internet must conform
to U.S. law.
Jacob Bailly
United States Geological Survey
On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Jacob Rose wrote:
> > Mr. Wee seems to be trying to build a system which conforms to the
> > communications laws of his country, as I most imperfectly understand all
> > but the high points of them to be. The US is not the net, and vice versa.
>
> Yes, but the law of the Net is free speech. Just because Singapore is run
> by a bunch of weenies doesn't mean the Internet should conform to their
> misguided policies.
>
> Jacob Rose The price and the cost of automobile
> jacob@whiteshell.com travel are two very different values.
>
