Privacy-loving Europeans are at it again

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 5:19 AM -0700 6/6/97, John Young wrote:
>The New York Times reports on page one the German
>prosecution of a woman who linked her home page to
>Radikal. It reviews XS4ALL's role, describes Radikal
>and its mirror sites and links to them all:
>
>   http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/060697germany.html
>
>It says that Kohl is determined to find a way to police the
>Net in spite of technical work-a-rounds.
>
>Recall a previous report that Kohl and other heads of state are
>to meet in Denver on June 20-22 to plan a global attack
>on "cyber-terrorism," including the spread of encryption:
>
>   http://jya.com/denver.htm


Wait a minute, John! Aren't these the same Europeans described by Marc
Rotenberg as being more privacy- and liberty=loving than Americans?

--Tim May



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