From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 23:44:54 +0800
To: Alex de Joode <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)
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At 04:53 AM 1/28/96 +0100, Alex de Joode wrote:
>
>Belgian TV (the dutch language channel) has a page on teletext (Ceefax)
>[I don't think US tv has that feature] stating that the French backbone
>is thinking about blocking sites that provide information that they deem
>ethicly unacceptable, like sites that promote the denial of Konzentrations
>Lagers, the extreme right, pornografic and pedophile sites.
>
>[page 128 BRTN, for those who can receive BRT]
>
>

What about "the extreme left."  Don't those people deserve to be blocked
too?  And how about US radio stations on RealAudio 2.0.  Cultural Imperialism.  

So how do we overcome these "backbone blocking" maneuvers?

DCF