At 10:35 AM 8/31/96 -0700, tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
The point is to make clear to them that the Usenet and similar Web sites are global in nature, not subject to censorship without a very high local cost. If discussions of Lee Kwan Yew's dynasty are considered illegal, then Singaporans will have to choose not to carry the various newsgroups into which *I* post such messages! [.....] To be blunt, if Singapore wants to stop me from discussing the dictator Yew and his feeble son, they can't. Except by pulling the plugs on forums in which my posts are carried.
Or they'll have to implement per-article filtering, whether done by bots (easy to evade) or by humans (normally much harder.) It's easy to have bots get rid of all postings/email/web mentioning Tim May or Klaus von Future Prime, though tougher to do so if you start posting anti-government-slander from your various Tentacles. And they don't have to use humans to filter the whole web - have bots identify any material containing the words "Singapore" or "Yew" and forward it to the humans, though that makes web proxies a bit slow :-) Reuters reports: R>Contents deemed objectionable include those ``which tend to R>bring the government into hatred or contempt, or which excite R>disaffection against the government,'' an SBA statement said Disaffection? Everybody loves Lee Kwan Yew (or else) - he's like a Big Brother to us! # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!