Report from Germany on "backdoor" net-censorship

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 11:10 PM 6/9/96, Ulf Moeller wrote:
>Furthermore, sample news articles will be suject to detailed legal
>evaluation. Should this result in suspicion or proof of transportation
>of illegal contents, the ICTF can launch various steps to work against
>propagation of these contents. For example, it can arrange for
>blocking of complete newsgroups or retrospect "Cancel" of articles
>already transmitted.

Um. Does this ICTF understand the implications of sending forged cancel
messages outside its own server, when the cancels are based strictly on
disapproval of the content? Do they realize what the consequences will be
for carriage of traffic from their node?

Is Germany about to become known as "Cancelbunny Nation"?

>Internet Media Counsil presents fist measurements for Voluntary
>Self-Control

This is a wonderful type in the fifth word above... ;-)

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