Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:48:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Maartje van der Heide <maartje@simplex.nl> To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: News... Message-ID: <199704171548.RAA19399@xs1.simplex.nl>
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Hello, >Why do this? Germany just laid charges against Compuserve for distributing >porn. Australia announced plans to target child porn and to ask OECD >countries to join it. Canada's national police force has asked ISP's to In the Netherlands since june 1995 the ISP's organized, we have The Dutch foundation of Internet providers (NLIP). I think providers in other countries should organize too. One of the most important goals of the NLIP has been to inform the goverment about what Internet is and what Internet is not. This has proven to be very successful, there has been alot of influence on the goverment and journalists knew where to go when they had questions, so the dutch people were informed much better then before. The few laws that are made for the internet here now are hardly restrictive for internet users and ISP's , the goverment has (as far as I know) no intensions to make restrictive laws or put pressure upon ISP's. One of the initiatives of the NLIP has been the 'Internet Hotline against child pornography' .(http://www.xs4al.nl/~meldpunt) This as well has had alot of positive effects and influence. In the Netherlands now we're far better off as ISP's (and internet community) then in quite alot of countries all over the world, and informing the goverment, and the people, is one of the most important things to do. Don't let them panic. I've been wondering for some time how the get ISP's let themselves organize in other countries, so decided to mail this on the list, hope it'll have some positive effect. Sorry if you find this mail too off-topic. (ban-ban ? :) Btw does anyone have a nice solution to reset the machines when they hang from behind the computer at home? I don't like to bike up and down only to push a button, they crash too often nowadays. I found something (relais or whatever it's called) but the software is for Windows/DOS . Maartje van der Heide sysop Simplex maartje@simplex.nl
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