[ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates]

[Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, 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 ?

No, but if some forces succeed to introduce it: I run a Freenet node
(http://freenet.sourceforge.net). This doesn't mean I do not think we
should fight censorship. But that will not come as a surprise for those
who read what I wrote earlier.

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

I don't have to answer this one, since I said no to 1. Anyway, it is
nearly as dangerous as only allowing ads in the newspaper or on
television.

> 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?

Not sure I get this one. Isn't the minimum standard already about
censoring? I would say that there will probably be some places on earth
where you can get away with anything on the web. Not sure I mind that :-)
 
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