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IP: global censoring and watch what you say online
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:53:01 -0500
I said this would happen in my MPT speech Dave 1-26-96. TWP: "Police Search of AOL Files Divides the On-Line World." Police descended on the company's headquarters Monday to perform the first such search ever of America Online records. Police are enthusiastic about the potentially incriminating information stored in computers. "It's a bit chilling, especially if you consider the idea of police pulling up an instant profile on you with the punch of a couple buttons," Woolie baa-ed to Babe. 1-26-96. WSJ: "Internet Racial Hatred Case Investigated." The Mannheim prosecutor's office is investigating CompuServe Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Online service for inciting racial hatred, a crime in Germany, because they provide access to the Internet, where a Canadian neo-Nazi has set up a home page. Although Mr. Zuendel lives in Toronto, "because it's available over the Internet, it also can be called up in Germany," the official said. "Then the scene of the crime is all of Germany."
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