From: IN%"everheul@NGI.NL" "Eric Verheul" 10-OCT-1996 07:31:16.85

First of all, that (and the legitimacy of "wiretaps" in general) is something that should be regulated in national law (including procedures, checks and balances, penalities). Maybe you have the opinion that that is impossible to achieve, [or at least that making wiretapping as such by government impossible is the only satisfactory way of doing it (-; ]. Our concept assumes that it is possible and acceptable, although legislation (and especially appliance of it) in some countries might be improved..

I would be curious as to whether you believe that China should be permitted to do censorship as part of "national law." If your answer is yes, I would ask if you would believe that Germany's Holocaust was something that should be permitted as a part of "national law." In other words, national sovereignty is not something that should be permitted to override individual liberties.

Wait a minute. It is a *voluntary* system, but it has some rules that apply. The whole idea here is: if you don't like it, use your own system. "Fraude" refers to

It is only theoretically a voluntary system; governments such as China's, Germany's, etcetera could require that it be used with these goverments as the TRA (or, essentially equivalently, someone licensed by such a government).

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Maybe I'm biased: I'm a libertarian who believes that sending the wrong bits shouldn't be considered a crime. The problem we have is with the Depends, it might be childrens pornography. The information society is *not* about bits, but about information.

If the bits carry information, then restricting the bits is restricting the information. I would point out that no harm whatsoever is being done to children in the _distribution_ of such pornography; such harm is only done in the _manufacture_ of such pornography (if, that is, actual children are used; currently there are various efforts to make computer-simulated "child pornography" illegal.) Quite simply, you've invented a system that makes censorship more possible. As a scientist, I try to avoid areas that have such negative effects; I won't work on biological warfare, for instance. I would like to suggest that you follow such ethics also; you have not. -Allen