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[Declan McCullagh]

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>      BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany on Friday became the first country to
>      pass a law regulating the free-wheeling global electronic space of
>      the Internet.
>      
>      Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government says the so-called multimedia
>      law creates legal clarity that will help boost commercialization of
>      cyberspace and combats illegal uses of the Internet such as for
>      pornography.
>      

Guess Mr. Kohl never heard of the CDA, or Malaysia's "multimedia laws." Or
any of dozens of attempts to muzzle the Net, documented two years ago in a
Humran Rights Watch report. Sigh.

-Declan