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Re: IP: Germany admits probe; claims CompuServe blocked voluntarily
From: John Perry Barlow <barlow () eff org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:33:18 -0700
At 10:41 AM 12/29/95, Dave Farber wrote:
It is only proper now to ask, "Who's lying?" Either CompuServe was ordered to block the newsgroups, as it asserts, or it did so voluntarily, as the German government says.
After several days of investigation, I would say they're both confused and that if any overt lying is going on, it's primarily CompuServe doing it. Truly a tempest in a teapot. **************************************************************** 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: Pinedale, Wyoming Coming soon to: 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 ***************************************************************** "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." --Article 19, U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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