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TruthMunger wrote:
Does Ernst Zundel have the right to deny the Holocaust and brag about it on the Net? In the U.S. the answer is unequivocally yes. But in Canada, where Zundel resides, the Human Rights Commission has been holding hearings on whether the "Zundelsite" violates the country's hate speech laws.
Thus, the Canadian Human Rights Commission's primary goal seems to be to limit Canadian's access to infomation to only that which is in alignment with the goals of those holding the reins of power. TruthMunger ----------- The World Wide Web and its liberating impact is being confronted with some realities from Big Brother. I don't know the technicalities of how these things are done. Would someone enlighten me (us) on how government can shut out internet traffice from or to undesireables? Browsing back through some article by S. Garfinkel recently led me to Electronic Border-Control, 14 July, 1997, Wired's Synapse http://www.hotwired.com/synapse/feature/97/28/garfinkel0a_text.html Some of Garfinkel's ideas about quite conventional about keeping the bad guys out and using government as the means of putting up a cyber barbed-wire-fence. I don't agree with his opinion about this, but it clued me in on the possiblities regarding what might be done under the conditions of a controlled & regulated environment. It would seem that as band-width increases dramatically, cheaper access and greater familiarity with the net occurs that government (taxes, regulations, der polizei, etc.) will come with it. The prospects of having the internet smothered under regulations is a disappointing idea. What are the possiblities for censoring/blocking communications on a technical basis? Sparticus
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