Re: Utopia/ Millenium go round.

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McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU> : Subject: File 4--Compuserve: Adam Dershowitz on Censorship : ---------- Forwarded message begins here ---------- : From--Adam Dershowitz <dersh@mit.edu> : Subject--Stop the Censorship! : Date--30 Dec 1995 23:51:35 GMT : Feel free to distribute or post the following letter where ever you see : fit: : Germany is setting the standards of free speech for the entire world, : and Compuserve is going along. This is the first major case of : censorship on the internet, and it is important that it is also the : last. The eyes of every internet provider, of the US Congress and other : governments are on this case to see how it develops. : German prosecutors threatened Compuserve for allowing access to Usenet : groups that they deemed to be unacceptable. Compuserve responded by : censoring it's users over the whole world, by banning these newsgroups. : If Germany tried to threaten a US phone company for allowing people to : use dirty words on an international phone call the phone company would : refuse to comply. Compuserve, given this same choice, chose to censor. : They have chosen to take responsibility for the content of everything : that crosses through their system, and to reject some of it. : One way to prevent such things from happening again is to make sure that : this censorship is not in the economic best interest of Compuserve, and : Germany. If they want to interfere with First Amendment rights, then we : should exercise our First Amendment rights to not communicate with them. : A boycott can be a very effective tool, that can work even if you are : not a Compuserve user. They have made a decision about community : standards for the world, if you agree that they do not have that right, : then do not accept their standards. If you are a Compuserve subscriber : then cancel your account. : Germany and Compuserve have chosen to selectively cut themselves off : from the rest of the internet community, let's make it a complete : separation. Do not send any E-mail to Compuserve or Germany. Do not : reply to any newsgroup posts, and do not access any of their web pages. : If you receive E-mail, then simply ignore it, send a copy of this : letter, or your own explanation that you will no longer use a system : that censors. If both Germany and Compuserve can be made into the : pariahs of the internet world then perhaps others will get the message : that censorship of the 'net is not acceptable and will only succeed in : destroying the 'net. : The World Wide Web should allow the exchange of any ideas around the : world. It should not be limited to the minimum acceptable ideas that : are allowed in any one of the countries or companies. If the : information that is available on the 'net is allowed to be only that : which is acceptable to people in Germany, Iran, Iraq, China and the US : Congress, then the net will be useless. If any one government, company : or entity, large or small, is allowed that much control of expression : then the freedom on the internet is lost to everyone.

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