At 04:41 AM 9/9/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
Prison sentences in Germany for those who reveal forbidden information about "the Holocaust,"
In a country where you get 10 months for stabbing a famous tennis star in the back, prison isn't much of a penalty.
prison terms (or worse) for dissidents in Burma, China, and, of course, various other nations and "democratic people's republics."
Even here in the United States, connecting to an illegal site may mean imprisonment. (The charge: trafficking in child pornography, for example.)
The percentage of total hits that will end in jail terms or executions is meaninglessly small as a percentage of total hits, though. You must admit that a ban on 100 sites out of all the sites in the world is pretty insignificant. The swamping effects of thousands and soon millions of sites means the governments of the world won't even be able to evaluate a significant percentage even if they want to. And all this *before* we apply any of our technical fixes. DCF