1996-02-05 - Boston Globe and Nazism

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From: bob bruen <bruen@wizard.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:56:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Boston Globe and Nazism
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I thought this clip would be of interest. Just in case you were not sure 
which directionship censorship on the net was heading. Anyone remember Joe
McCarthy? 

                            bob
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Boston Sunday Globe page 74, February 4, 1996.
Business Review section, Highlights of the week: Jan.28-Feb.3.


Goosestepping in cyberspace

The politics of the Internet make strange bedfellows. When the German
government moved to bar German Internet users from downloading material
on a neo-Nazi net site, the free-speech-in-cyberspace crowd reacted by
downloading the stuff and posting it all over the net. Joseph Goebels
would be proud.





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