CDR: Re: Why Free Speech Matters

[David Honig]

At 12:01 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Olav wrote:
>
>The hint of illegality? Well, of course this is a reason, but the question
>remains that if all people had legal access to nationalsocialist
>propaganda such as "Mein Kampf", would the fact that that mainpart of our

Actually MK *is* available online to everyone, I think from hitler.com
(I was curious when Germany messed with some hitler.de domain...)  I don't
know if this infringes copyright, but that would be the only law that
matters here ;-) 


>> And, of course, the German and Austrian governments of the time 
>> changed the laws as they saw fit.

A lesson their conquerors have since learned well..

>> Of course, the crypto relevance of all of this is that strong crypto 
>> is already making it possible to distribute Nazi and neo-Nazi 
>> material in these countries without any possibility that the 
>> governments can halt the flow.

Wow, congrats, you actually tied the thread to the topic!

DH