"German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)

>"Germany's biggest Internet provider has blocked access to a Santa Cruz
>computer service that makes available neo-Nazi propaganda in another sign
>of the growing tension over material available on the Internet.
>
>"Deutsche Telekom, Germany's national phone company, blocked its 1 million
>customers Thursday from gaining access to Internet "Web sites" maintained
>by customers of Web Communications of Santa Cruz.



At least my local paper got it right in the AP article they published on this...

"The block - analogeous to the government ordering a bookstore to take every
book by a given publisher off the shelves because it objected to one title -
was imposed Thursday."

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>>>>> "Alan" Pugh <ampugh@mci.newscorp.com> writes:

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Alan> "The block - analogeous to the government ordering a bookstore
Alan> to take every book by a given publisher off the shelves because
Alan> it objected to one title - was imposed Thursday."

The difference is, that the German government was not ordering this
block.

Olmur

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