
Well, I feel that I agree with the people on the right of free speech for i.e. the neo-nazi stuff or other political, ideological and/or religious ideas. But there is still something that leaves me uneasy: imagine there would be a way to easily make a powerful poison, easily applicated to your town's water-reservoir, or a very easy way to build some strong explosive device. etc. Actually, I think that stuff like this does exist already. But the idea that one day I just put 'easy made deadly poison for millions' into my webcrawler and whoop there it is on my screen or on the screen of any other fool, doesn't sound to right to me. I would like things like this to be better put aside and locked up. Well, maybe my imagination isn't strong enough to make my point. But do you fighter for free speech, in principle, think that nothing, really nothing, shouldn't be prevented of being published? And by being published, I mean published in the net, not at loompanics (who knows loompanics?). I know, of course, that by accepting that there is something that shouldn't be available on the net, we would need something to decide what and how to ban. So I wonder what would be a more 'net'-like way of handling this type of thing and how to prevent that some 'strong-armed' governments take the net over. I do not see tokay's governments being prepared for the net (at least not the German one). But I see them trying to put the 'old' laws onto the net. Not because they are mean, but because they don't know any better. So, I think it would be nice to have something to offer to them. I do not think though that they will accept the totally right of free speech (yet). There is something that is closely related to the right of free speech but not the same and that is the right of privacy. And I think there is a big danger of the issue of free (public) speech been taken over to the right of privacy. Governments may, by arguing to control the public net, start to prohibit the use of strong cryptography. It seems important to me to separate this two issues. Maybe it will be necessary to agree to some kind of (hopefully self organized) control of the public net. But it is totally unacceptable to allow whatever organization to look into someone's private life. Comments and hints to information on these topics very much welcome Stephan