[66252] in Cypherpunks
Re: We removed radikal 154 from xs4all :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Mon Sep 23 17:25:22 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:00:35 -0700
To: tank <tank@xs4all.nl>
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 6:31 PM 9/23/96, tank wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We have temporary removed radikal 154 from xs4all.
>
>We did this because the german ICTF and BAW continued to stop IP-traffic
>to and from xs4all. They not only blocked the web-server (with more than
...
Unfortunately, this means that Germany wins.
This will embolden Germany and other nations to apply similar pressures to
other ISPs.
While I don't fully understand the economic pressures the IP-traffic
blockage may have had on your site, it is sad that a user account has been
removed because some foreign government doesn't like it.
My recommendation is that you restore radikal 154's account immediately,
and post a message to all customers and on various Net forums indicating
you will not remove user accounts for materials which do not violate your
own national laws.
--Tim May
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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