- Is compuserves movement now going change the other big servers like
aol and prodigy?
- How can the internet be censored? I think we are creating more
problems than solutions.
- Is Singapore helping its country more than harming it?
- It seems as if other countrys are causing problems, why can't
they start their own internet with in their country and stay out
of the main one? It doesn't seem fair that the world should change
for a few countrys.
- Should goverments be able to control what is seen
on the internet?
- Should it be legal for the government to monitor
anyone's incomng or outgoing electronic mail?
- Is the net (in this case newsgroups) a public place?
- What countries laws apply to the net as far as standards of decency?
- Why can't Compuserve just locate their offices outside of German reach?
- If the Singapore government is so concerned about the spread of information,
then why don't they just prevent "common" people from having access to
the internet?
- What type of material (if any) should be censored?
- Should the government, on-line publishers, etc. censor explicit or harmful material on the web or should they not monitor it and let the internet be a place of anarchy which has no rules or regulations?
- Should US liberalism apply to everyone across the globe?
- Should all involved in illegal crimes be prosecuted? Example Phone company.
- If Compuserve is providing a service for people, doesn't that give them the
right to not provide the service? Afterall, no one is forcing people to
use the service.
- By eliminating Compuserve as the middle man of the supposed "crime", how
does the German government think it will stop the "criminals" who are
sending and receiving the "criminal" material?
- Do you think, using the example of the internet, that a society becomes more moralistic when the government or powerful entity limit those choices which we consider to be choices based on our moral principles?
- Why do you think this?
- Should goverments be able to control what is seen
on the internet?
- Should it be legal for the government to monitor
anyone's incomng or outgoing electronic mail?
- If Germany had a problem with CompuServe, why didn't they just
shut down access to the service until CS could come up with a way to
block the newsgroups from Germany only?
- Now that CompuServe has agreed to reactivate the newsgroups, what
will they do about Germany before they can locally block the groups?
Do you think Germany, a very conservative country/government, will
accept the notion that one country cannot govern the WWW? In responding
so irately to the censoring, is the U.S. not imposing ITS law in the
Web as much as Germany was in censoring it?
- How can the will of one nation be imposed on the entire world?
- Is Compuserve more concerned with the overall satisfaction of their customers or are they more concerned with the amount of customers that they have. What's to stop the customers who want to view these newsgroups from signing up with another company?
- Do you believe censorship is tangible in Tsingapore at this period in time?
- Why did Compuserve cancel all of the Compuserve accounts instead of the known 2500 users who were known to be smuggling child pornagraphy?
- Should "National Law" in one country cause censorship in
another?
- With all the differing opinions as to what is and what is not
acceptable, how can the government possibly come up with a way to
censor the Internet?
- I can see why the German people would be angry about child pornography, but that doesn't give them the right to sensor some stuff that violates freedoms of other people in other countries.(i.e. The U.S.) How and why does compuserve allow themselves to be bullied by few when so many others demand non-sensorship?
- What can any government do to stop criminals from selling drugs or any other illegal materials without being bombarded with sensorship allegations?
- If child pornography is illegal to transfer across the internet in so many countries, why do they allow on the Internet at all?
- Does the German government have a communications group such as our FCC? If so, why haven't they pre-established rules and regulations for this particular area of communications?
- Why isn't Germany thinking globaly when they know that Compuserve cannot block them out and not anybody else?
- If Germany does not like what Compuserve holds on the internet, why don't they make their own server for people who are offended by the explicit material on the internet?
- How is it that Bavarian police were unaware of knowledge about the internet involving issues of responsibility of the service providers, yet they demanded that Compuserve close down certain acces on the German 'net?
- Should a government be allowed to "wiretap" the internet if they feel there is some sort of illegal business being performed therein? And, what are the guidelines of an "illegal internet business"?
- Which would you believe more important, freedom of speech and information or the shielding of explicite material from impressionable minds.
- In Singapore, do you believe it is tangeble to both impose censorship and as well as not reep the benefits of the information age.