From: Tim Scanlon <tfs@vampire.science.gmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 95 03:58:09 PST
To: Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com>
Subject: Re: Massey, CEO of Compuserve, on Internet
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you said:
|On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:
|
|> Wow! I am watching the CEO of Compuserve being interviewed on CNBC, |>explaining how his company is "taking the high road by complying with the |>laws of Germany" in removing access to 200 Usenet groups.
|
|A blatant lie.
|

How this could ever be construed as "the high road" is beyond me.
Censorship and fascism tend to go hand in hand, I suppose it should
be no surprise to see this coming from de-dom.

Can we just start calling them CompuCensor instead of Compuserve?

Tim


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