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IP: Re: German government orders censorship of CompuServe -- a
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 04:19:07 -0500
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:24:15 -0700 From: John Perry Barlow <barlow () eff org> To: interesting-people () eff org (interesting-people mailing list) At 5:47 PM 12/27/95, Dave Farber wrote:
COMPUSERVE(R) SUSPENDS ACCESS TO SPECIFIC INTERNET NEWSGROUPS
The bell begins to toll for the online services. Eventually all content of interest will be driven off systems owned large, responsible institutions like Compuserve and onto web sites. Let them try to regulate content then. **************************************************************** John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Home(stead) Page: http://www.eff.org/~barlow Message Service: 800/634-3542 Barlow in Meatspace Today: Sun Valley, Idaho 208/622-4111 Coming soon to: Pinedale 1/2-1/7, San Francisco 1/8-9, Pinedale 1/10-17, Amsterdam 1/18-19, Budapest 1/20-23, Palm Springs 1/24-26, Minneapolis 1/27-28, Chicago 1/29, New York 1/29-31, Davos, Switzerland 2/1-4 In Memoriam, Dr. Cynthia Horner and Jerry Garcia ***************************************************************** The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children. --Justice Felix Frankfurter, Butler v. Michigan
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