Tim May wrote:
At 6:09 PM -0700 12/29/96, drose@AZStarNet.com wrote:
"After Austria and Germany, Switzerland is my favourite country. I have spent the past 40 winters and 10 summers there. I love the place because it's clean, beautiful, very conservative and its people mind their own business." Taki, in today's _Sunday Times_(London).
Yes, the same Germany that is restricting Internet access, that proposed to jail Compuserve executives for allowing banned material on the Net, and that has laws making various opinions illegal (specifically, the opinion that the Holocaust never happened as the official version declares, or that Aryans are superior to non-Aryans, etc.).
I enjoy all three countries, as a tourist, but I strongly doubt the "its people mind their own business" characterization, even for Switzerland alone (and certainly not for Germany).
Woops. Guess that I should elided the "After Austria and Germany" clause. Ob C-punks issues, I recall that Remo Pini, one of the Swiss on the list, was preparing a CD-ROM crypto compilation disc. He hasn't posted in some time, so perhaps the authorities have decided that such a project was in fact "their business." Seriously, I hope that Remo is able to give some information on the state of the current Swiss crypto regs.