On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Rich Graves wrote:
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On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Charles Gimon wrote: [...]
Trouble in Paradise by Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com) Washington, DC, 18 August
Indonesian democracy activists have taken their fight for freedom to the Net, and the government doesn't approve.
After distributing email messages about riots in Jakarta last month to an international Indonesian-politics mailing list, Prihadi Beny Waluyo, a lecturer at Duta Wacana Christian University, was arrested and interrogated by the military. Since then, the mailing list has been banned from the country and Waluyo has returned to his house, where he remains under surveillance.
[dan lain-lain...]
Exactly which mailing list was "banned from the country"? All the Indonesian mailing lists I'm on, including apakabar@clark.net, are functioning normally, with no unusual complaints or interruptions.
Never mind the details. What's important is that this is yet another example of net censorship, like the Berkeley administration's reading student email and the FBI's monitoring and disrupting patriot email.
It's really sad, the difference between HRW/AI and Wired. You know, Amnesty has some outstanding policies regarding accuracy, objectivity, and universality. That's why they're accorded such respect. Human Rights Watch, which has only been around since the late 70's and committed a few major faux pas in Central America, is still learning. Wired decided that it had all the answers years ago.
Rich is frothing again. Time to killfile him again. Note he contributes nothing of substance except a vapid anti-Wired rant that has been done better elsewhere, like www.howtired.com. (Personally, I don't even read Wired much anymore. To each his own.) As for UCB and the FBI threads, Rich is talking about back fight-censorship discussions. He seems to think that I endorse every message I forward to a mailing list. He is incorrect. (Rather, I offer the information to the list, as Judge Sloviter took Olsen's testimony, "for what it's worth.") Back to Indonesia -- my column should have said the Indonesian military is *trying* to ban the mailing list from the country. They haven't succeeded yet. Time will tell. I have more information on Indonesia at http://www2.eff.org/~declan/global/ -- right now, use the www2 address since not all directories seem to be updating on the mirror servers properly right now. -Declan // declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //