From: bennett_t1@popmail.firn.edu
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 11:17:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: index.html
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Anonymous wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
> >                   GERMANY PASSES WORLD'S FIRST CYBERSPACE LAW
> >
> >       graphic July 4, 1997
> >      Web posted at: 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT)
> >
> >      BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany on Friday became the first
> country to
> >      pass a law regulating the free-wheeling global electronic space
> of
> >      the Internet.
>
> So does that mean Germany is regulating all of the Internet? Or just
> networked computers and operators inside Germany?

   Which cypherpunk said that he wouldn't go to a conference to get
arrested for making a funny comment about a resurgence of fascism in
Germany?