From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh)
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 95 13:58:47 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Internetpol"
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tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:

> rishab@dxm.ernet.in wrote:
> > The Religious Alliance Against Pornography has been holding a biggish 
> > conference in Manila; the focus is on child pornography, and a major topic
> > of discussion is the evil of electronic networks. The Interpol is among tho
> 
> Perhaps it will become "Internetpol"?

The Interpol, like many national police agencies, already does attempt to
police the Net. While their work against narcotics and money launderers deals
primarily with the phone network, _child_ pornography (which is legal in
places, but like all porn is illegal if non-consensual, as is usually the
case with kidporn), software piracy, and conspiracy/terrorism is hunted for
in cyberspace. For instance, there was this noise a while ago when they
stumbled on a xenophobic European BBS that had a hit-list of 'black' 
sympathizers. Naturally they aren't particularly good at net.policing, and
no one can ever really be.


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