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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.secur Subject: Re: Communications Decency Act may corrupt protocols Date: 2 May 1996 15:02:20 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4maips$sp0@hops.entertain.com> References: <4ki6d6$ln7@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> <4kj36o$2h8@tom.amherst.edu> <4km3jh$1of@cronkite.cisco.com> <4l4hcl$n75@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> <4l7k5h$if1@alca.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.45.153.241 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:44256 comp.unix.bsd.misc:892 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3467 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18557 comp.unix.osf.misc:3070 comp.unix.sco.misc:17097 In article <4l7k5h$if1@alca.Helsinki.FI>, vhalkka@cc.helsinki.fi says: > >In article <4l4hcl$n75@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>, >Catherine Allen <cccalle0@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> wrote: [snip] >>A better solution is needed. > Yes! >I don't know.. maybe we should just gradually leave the USA out of the >current Internet, vital services will surface in some other place. > >There could be a US governement controlled filth gateway between >'US-safenet' and the Internet. > >There are other important countries that have been more or less out >of the net, without much harm to others. > >The US is re-inventing Soviet Union control policies, if we co-operate >the politicians will make compromises -> we get the disease.. > >VesA I find it heavily ironic that the US is trying to place essentially the same type of information control that China is - by trying to run the traffic through a centrally-controlled agency (in the case of China, through their 'news' service, in the case of the US, through the FBI/ Secret Police/Big Brother/Goon Squad/Other Derogatory Adjectives). "Freedom of Speech". HAH. I am embarrassed to be an American. I apologize, to the rest of the World for the Buttheads that exist here. It is probably time to take this topic to another newsgroup...