Newsgroups: alt.censorship,comp.org.eff.talk,news.admin.censorship,alt.privacy,comp.privacy Subject: COMMUNITY CONNEXION ANNOUNCES PROMOTION FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET From: Community ConneXion <admin@c2.org> For Immediate Release - January 4, 1996 Contact: Sameer Parekh 510-601-9777x3 COMMUNITY CONNEXION ANNOUNCES PROMOTION FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET Berkeley, CA - In response to recent restrictions on Usenet material made available to CompuServe customers, Community ConneXion, an Internet privacy provider, today announced that has begun a promotion to offer uncensored access to Usenet newsgroups at a discount to users who have experienced censorship at the hands of their Internet service provider, employer, or university. "'The Internet views censorship as damage, and routes around it,'" said Community ConneXion President Sameer Parekh, quoting a famous saying on the net, "While a network provider, university, or employer may want to limit the access their customers, students, or employees may have to potentially controversial material on the Internet, people need to realize that it is still possible for them to access controversial material through alternative means. We're making available services to make this fact obvious." Community ConneXion offers full Internet access to its customers, with no content-based restrictions on materials its customers may read or make available on the Internet. Community ConneXion has made available one free month of service to users signing up for services with Community ConneXion who are doing so in order to avoid content- based restrictions instituted by their net provider, university, or employer. Customers who would like to take advantage of Community ConneXion's uncensored access may continue to use their current provider for their basic access, but to access the previously-unavailable materials they may proxy through to the Community ConneXion servers. Parekh commented on the ease with which people can bypass censorship instituted by their provider or employer, "Providers, employers, and universities may think that they are restricting access through their sites, but given the ease with which people can set up an account with us, the organizations trying to restrict access will soon realize that censorship is hopeless." Community ConneXion, founded in June of 1994, is the leading provider of privacy on the Internet. They provide anonymous and pseudonymous Internet access and web pages in addition to powerful web service, virtual hosts, and web design consultation. Information is available from their web pages at http://www.c2.org/. More information on the uncensored promotion is available at http://www.c2.org/uncensored/.