---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:53:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: The Real Revolution: Net Guerrillas, from The Netly News ------ http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1183,00.html The Netly News Network (http://netlynews.com/) July 21, 1997 The Real Revolution: Net Guerrillas by Elizabeth Frantz The recent kidnapping and assassination of Spanish politician Miguel Angel Blanco by the Basque separatist group ETA has ignited a violent backlash that is spilling into cyberspace. In the wake of the widespread protest against ETA, the Spanish government requested last week that the Cable News Network (CNN) remove its link to the group's web site. Miguel Garzon, spokesman for the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C., defended the move by saying the ETA should be considered terrorist and not separatist, and therefore links should not be made to them. The ETA has killed nearly 800 people since it took up arms in 1968 to fight for independence for Spain's northern Basque provinces. CNN refused the Spanish government's request, saying that it was standard practice to provide links that relate to the subject matter -- even if the subject is terrorism. More and more terrorist groups are creating pockets of resistance online, a fact that is beginning to raise serious questions, especially for educational institutions, where John Q. Taxpayer might be indirectly paying for a Zapatista web site. [...]