From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 13:43:14 +0800
To: "E. Allen Smith" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ASEAN nations generally pro-censorship
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>     _________________________________________________________________
>                 ASEAN FORUM AGREES ON NEED TO POLICE THE NET
>   __________________________________________________________________________

>[...]

>   But the statement suggested there was no agreement on a uniform
>   approach to policing the Internet.

One could argue that the hundred years war was in substantial part
the result of regulatory arbitrage against attempts to censor the 
printing press, that it was in large part an unsuccessful attempt 
to create a uniform standard of censorship by force of arms.


History suggests that there *wont* be a uniform approach on policing
the net.
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