Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 15:34:24 -0800 X-Sender: tcmay@mail.got.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk If UMass has yielded, the prominently mentioned CMU and Stanford sites may be prompted to exactly the same thing. This will "prove" to the Germans that they did the right thing, and be a blow in _favor_ of suppression of speech. I just heard the latest version of this story on WBZ radio here in Boston. The report quoted the chairman of the CS dept. at UMass; his claim is that Futplex's distribution of the material was clearly a "political act" and thus not an appropriate uses of computing resources funded by public tax dollars. The report clearly stated that Futplex's actions were taken to protest German censorship. Immediately after this story WBZ reported that Germany is now investigating AOL for possible distributions of banned material. --bal