[registrars] Re: FYI: German State Alters DNS To Censor Web Sites

[Abel Wisman <abel@able-towers.com>]

Ross and list.

to begin with i am not German, so not defending a country or ppl here, 
however when you deepen your reading (i know i know you need to be able to 
read in German) you will read that it orignially made to stop traffic to know 
nazi propaganda sites.

nazi propaganda is prohibited in most countries in the EU and even though i 
do not agree with nazi's and in fact hate time profoundly for what they did 
to my country  (netherlands) in the 2nd world war and to humanity  in 
general, i still think they have a right to free speech.

It is a sad day indeed to realize we are getting just as worse as those we 
condemn, perhaps a return to the 60's would clarify some governements that 
according to the universal human right we are all entitled to free speech.

what is next ? 

the list grows to long, perhaps we should start selling proxies again

abel


P.S.  Ross, if you want it all translated i can do but need some tme so will 
be late tonight my time before you get all articles




On Thursday 22 Nov 2001 3:28 pm, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> Who says that the DNS is purely a technical exercise?
>
> "Rabenwolf writes: "In the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the
> first ISP (ISIS Multimedia) has given in to pressure from the state
> government and has started to block foreign websites with supposedly
> "illegal content" by changing the corresponding DNS entries. ISIS customers
> trying to access these sites are redirected to the website of the local
> government. ISPs in North Rhine-Westphalia will have to pay a fine if they
> continue to provide access to sites with "illegal content" through their
> DNS servers. It's not as bad as China or Saudi-Arabia, but it makes you
> think... An article from the heise newsticker is here, and if you don't
> sprechen Deutsch, Google might help."
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/22/1415218&mode=flat
>
> If anyone has a reasonable translation of the Heise article, I would love
> to give it a read.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -rwr

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