From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 14:22:15 +0800
To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Feasibility of censoring and jamming pronography and racismin informatics
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At 12:54 PM -0700 8/29/97, Ulf Möller wrote:
>A European parliament study evaluating `Feasibility of censoring and
>jamming pronography and racism in informatics':
>
>"SUBSCRIBER PROTECTION: In this scenario [...] it would be necessary
>for access providers to use firewall and PICS technology (in some
>instances implemented with in proxy applications) to implement a
>management regime consistent with provisions for protection of society
>as in other media, ie media parity. Implementation on this basis would
...
>	- currently implementations of the key technology
>	  (PICS) in Internet applications is incomplete and
>	  hence the ratings information can not yet be used to
>	  manage all types of Internet content explicitly;


Well, so much for PICS being "voluntary." It seems the Euro-fascists are
already planning to incorporate it as a control mechanism.

(But, then, only fools thought PICS would be a "voluntary" self-ratings
system. It will by the Zyklon-B of the German-French-British information
Holocaust. And the United States will of course also try to implement this.
Only the recent "setbacks" in crypto laws--Bernstein, Denning's cold feet,
Clinton's troubles, Ruby Ridge prosecution, etc.--give me any comfort. )

The rest of what Ulf forwarded shows just how deeply the Europeans have
been infected. It needs to be monkeywrenched.

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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