This is just too perverse

Ben Laurie ben@algroup.co.uk
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:11:57 +0100


"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Off topic, but too perverse not to post.
> 
> According to an article in the 25July200 San Jose Mercury News, old Nazi
> items are up for sale in the Yahoo auctions, generating controversy of course.
> 
> Buying and selling such items is illegal in France, so "a French judge wants
> to block Yahoo users in France ...".  Generating more controversy of course,
> about regulating use of the Internet.
> 
> The line I treasure is a quote from Claude Stern (a local lawyer):
> 
>    "If all of the different countries imposed their laws on the Internet, you
>     would have anarchy."
> 
> Try deconstructing that!

Seems to me that what you would have is not anarchy, but no Internet.

Cheers,

Ben.

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