! At 8:18 AM 9/6/96, tank wrote: ! >Please forward: ! ! > * * * P R E S S R E L E A S E * * * ! > ! > ! >GERMANY CENSORS DUTCH WEBSITE WWW.XS4ALL.NL, WITH 3100 WEBPAGES ! > ! > ! >German internetproviders, joined in the Internet Content Taskforce ! >(ICTF), started censoring the Dutch website www.xs4all.nl, containing ! >3100 personal and commercial homepages. This act of censorship is ! >caused by the webpage of a magazine that is banned in Germany, Radikal ! >(http://www.xs4all.nl/ ~tank/radikal/). ! ... ! ! Though my German friends will perhaps feel I am picking on them, this is ! not so (this week Germany is in the hot seat, last week it was ! Singapore....). ! ! A Modest Proposal: ! ! * as Germany is bent on blocking sites which carry this subversive ! pamphlet, "Radikal," let us mirror it on thousands of sites around the ! world. ! ! * when the Germans went into Danmark and insisted Jews wear badges, ! ordinary citizens (and the Danish Royal Family, as I recall) also took to ! wearing these Star of David badges. ! ! * wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if the "Free Speech Blue Ribbon" now ! attached to so many pages were to be joined by a "Star of David"? This Star ! of David symbol could mean "We support freedom to read, and our site ! contains the "Radikal" publication which Germans are forbidden to access." ! ! (I know nothing of how such symbolic campaigns are actually launched and ! managed, so I'm suggesting the hint of an idea. I do think mirroring the ! banned publication (_any_ banned publication, by _any_ government) on as ! many sites as possible is a Good Idea.) Can someone post an uncensored copy here? That's a good start. I could repost Jolly Roger which I think I archived, or post something from Kurt Saxon in de.soc and soc.culture.german for a good start!