If it weren’t for the internet, there would hardly be any revisionism today due to the ever increasing anti-revisionist censorship laws in many western countries and the steadily rising tide of social persecution of revisionists. All the more important is the struggle to keep the internet free from government censorship and corporate attempts at stifling dissent. Listed here are contributions dealing with this issue, sorted by the countries where incidents of internet censorship – or courageous opposition to censorship – have occurred.
By L.R Beam ∙ January 1, 1997
The Internet, perhaps the last truly free means of information exchange in the Western world, may soon be choked by censorship and governmental controls. The circumscribing of the Net may cause the death of what has become the first people-to-people exchange of ideas and information on a world wide basis. The forces behind this effort…
By Electronic Frontiers Italy, American Civil Liberties Union, Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet ∙ April 23, 1997
April 23, 1997 Chancellor Helmut KohlAdenauerallee 14153113 BonnGERMANY Dear Chancellor Kohl, The undersigned organizations, members of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, are writing to express concern about the prosecution of Felix Somm, German representative of CompuServe, for the transmission of allegedly illegal materials over the Internet. The news reports we have received indicate that Mr….
By CODOH ∙ February 26, 1997
On February 26, a CompuServe official was indicted for providing access to objectionable materials on the Internet. German prosecutors indicted Felix Somm, the Managing Director of CompuServe operations in Germany and Central Europe, for allegedly distributing “illegal pornography” and “other materials.” This marks the first case in which an indictment was rendered against a service…
By Dick Zimmer ∙ October 7, 1996
The following text is from one of the 30 plus pieces of legislation relating to the Holocaust that have been or are now being processed by the 104th Congress. A quiet movement continues to make politically incorrect speech a crime in this country, as it is now not only in despotic nations such as China,…
By Coalition of Online Civil Liberties Organisations ∙ August 7, 1996
7 AUGUST 1996 Summary On July 30th the G7 group of nations met in Paris to discuss terrorism. Among other responses the G7 have endorsed a number of restrictions and controls on the Internet. These include the prohibition or censorship of sources that may contain “dangerous” information, restrictions on the electronic speech of unpopular political…
By CODOH ∙ July 4, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell As the first seconds of July 4, 1996 ticked away, the Bradley R. Smith / CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust) website was shut down from the World Wide Web. The Bradley R. Smith Website was dedicated to the cause of Free Speech and…
By CODOH ∙ October 2, 1992
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The latest effort by revisionists to foster open debate on the holocaust issue over a computer network “bulletin board system” (BBS) has been closed down by network censors after just three weeks. On September 9, 1992, the GE-nie computer network permitted the creation of a new…
By John Perry Barlow ∙ January 1, 1996
Governments of the industrial world, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor…
By CODOH ∙ June 4, 1996
Mr. Francois Fillion, French minister for Post office and communication, introduced on June 4 an amendment to the bill reforming the French postal system. It says that ISP (Internet service providers) will be immune from prosecution if they obey the following orders : they must provide their customers with a filter software and deny access…
By Chip Rowe ∙ January 4, 1996
FIRST AMENDMENT CYBERTRIBUNE http://w3.trib.com/FACT/ [no longer active] Charles Levendosky, editorial page editor of Casper, Wyoming's Star-Tribune and a past winner of a Playboy Foundation First Amendment Award, pays tribute to the first and best amendment. His site focuses on protecting religious liberty and free speech and includes weekly updates on the activities of the politicians,…
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