Re: [ICANN-EU] Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:48:56 +0200

[Alf Hansen <aha@uninett.no>]

Ralf,

I do not see what these questions have to to with ICANN, but anyway,
some quick answers:

Ralf Möbius wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> after a long discussion about democracy and the dangers of political and
> industrial domination of the net, I would like to ask you a few qestions
> about internet and censorship.
> 
> 1. Do you think there should be a general censorship in the www, filtering
> certain contents ?

Not "General". Everybody have to obey the law(s). If they don't, they
will be procequted.

If the society wants to limit accessability to f.ex. pornography for
children, other mechanisms than General censorship should be used.

> 
> 2. If so, isn`t the danger of censorship higher than any influence of
> extremist contents?

N/A.

> 
> 3. Isn`t it sufficient, that the criminal law and terms of resposibility for
> web-contents of each country ensure that contents in the net follow a
> minimum standard of what we call civilization?

I am not sure if this is sufficient. We need to develop a minimum
standard for "Internet civilization". We may end up using some useful
tools in the Internet to avoid unwanted attacs (SPAM filters, blocking
of certain addresses etc.), but this is not censorship, because this
must be in under control of the end-user who wants to be protect. Or the
end-user can chose a set of such services from his service provider(s).

> 
> Best regards, Ralf Möbius.

Best regards,
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