IP: "German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)

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

And BTW there are terrible other users of Webcom such as banks, politicians,
schools. Wait till someone objects to Christian groups and we start banning
them so services can sell overseas :-)




Dave






To: cypherpunks () toad com
From: tcmay () got net (Timothy C. May)


At 5:07 PM 1/28/96, Mike McNally wrote:
> Timothy C. May writes:
> > "Deutsche Telekom, Germany's national phone company, blocked its 1 million
> > customers Thursday from gaining access to Internet "Web sites" maintained
> > by customers of Web Communications of Santa Cruz.
>
> I have this urge to e-mail Deutche Telekom the output of an
> appropriate AltaVista query so they can make sure none of that nasty
> stuff is reaching impressionable German adults & children.


It's interesting that some of the first things to pop up with a AV search
of "Webcom AND Zundel" were instructions posted in one of German groups
about how to bypass the access restrictions...


[Actually, I just tried this search again, and didn't find the messages.
Maybe I am misremembering I did last night, or maybe....]


A Usenet message claims that Deutsche Bank is on the same Web server (?)
and cannot access some of its customers. Whatever the precise truth of
this, a side effect of countries trying to disconnect themselves from Bad
Thoughts is disruption of commerce. This may provoke a bigger reaction than
all of our protests and civil liberties points.


--Tim




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