1996-02-03 - Re: Germany investigates AOL for providing Zundelaccess

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From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-03 17:54:28 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 01:54:28 +0800

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From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 01:54:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Germany investigates AOL for providing Zundelaccess
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At 1:24 PM 2/3/96, Duncan Frissell wrote:
>At 07:34 PM 2/2/96 -0500, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
>
>>      America Online spokesman Ingo Reese in Hamburg said his company
>>also was happy to work with the prosecutors. The company is ``totally
>>opposed'' to illegal propaganda, he said, but argued that commercial
>>on-line companies have as much control over materials posted on the
>>Internet as telephone companies have over their customers'
>>conversations.
>
>That's what happens when you hire Germans for your German operations.


He was only following orders.


--Tim


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