IP: Re: German government orders censorship of CompuServe -- a

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

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.






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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.


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