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[Roy M. Silvernail]

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[ kudos once again to John Young for making the NYT material available]


>    The New York Times, December 29, 1995, pp. A1, D4.
> 
>    On-Line Service Blocks Access To Topics Called Pornographic
> 
>       Complaint by Germany Has Worldwide Impact
> 
>    By John Markoff

[big snip]

>    "In the future, every Internet operator will be subject to
>    local laws," said Eric Schmidt, chief technology officer
>    for Sun Microsystems Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.,
>    computer maker. "And software will be developed to provide
>    the appropriate local censorship."

Ick.  There's some truth in the first quoted sentence, but I fail to see
any censorship as "appropriate".  Does Mr. Schmidt swing much weight in
Sun's policy department?
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           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]      roy at cybrspc.mn.org
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