Compuserve grovels to foreign censors

Sudduth, Larry SudduthLM at SecureC2.com
Fri Jan 5 04:02:08 PST 1996


At 15:05 1/4/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
>Caller ID could tell them where you are calling from.  They can also use
>their billing information and user profile information to decide where you
>live and/or how old you are.  I wonder if any of these filters will keep
>the German prosecutors off their necks, given that they can be bypassed.

I don't know whether or not one can presume the existence of Caller ID over
in Germany.  When I lived there (albeit several years ago), it was a 
frustrating
mixture of old technology (no records of any calls, just a counter that 
registered
message units, so one could get a monster phone bill, and not even contest 
it)
and new (ISDN and the German Post's version of BTX, Bildschirmtext).

>I feel sorry for them given the situation they are in, and want to kick
>their butts for just rolling over dead instead of fighting for free 
access.

Feeling much the way you do about CompuServe's actions, I voted with my
wallet, and canceled my membership.  More and more vendors are offering
equivalent support through the I'net anyway.  The vision of a tin horn
prosecutor in Munich being successful will only fuel the zeal of the 
would-be
censors here and elsewhere in the World.  (I wonder if the Revolutionary
Guards in Iran are discussing what they next want censored.)

BTW, I've never been an alt.* group reader, etc.  That being said, who is
CompuServe to try to control access to it.  CompuServe is transport-only, 
and
not a content originator.  Since the Una-bomber used Fed-Ex to kill his 
victims
should Fed-Ex no longer deliver to US addresses?




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