At 12:54 PM -0700 8/29/97, Ulf Möller wrote:
A European parliament study evaluating `Feasibility of censoring and jamming pronography and racism in informatics':
"SUBSCRIBER PROTECTION: In this scenario [...] it would be necessary for access providers to use firewall and PICS technology (in some instances implemented with in proxy applications) to implement a management regime consistent with provisions for protection of society as in other media, ie media parity. Implementation on this basis would ... - currently implementations of the key technology (PICS) in Internet applications is incomplete and hence the ratings information can not yet be used to manage all types of Internet content explicitly;
Well, so much for PICS being "voluntary." It seems the Euro-fascists are already planning to incorporate it as a control mechanism. (But, then, only fools thought PICS would be a "voluntary" self-ratings system. It will by the Zyklon-B of the German-French-British information Holocaust. And the United States will of course also try to implement this. Only the recent "setbacks" in crypto laws--Bernstein, Denning's cold feet, Clinton's troubles, Ruby Ridge prosecution, etc.--give me any comfort. ) The rest of what Ulf forwarded shows just how deeply the Europeans have been infected. It needs to be monkeywrenched. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."