http://www.pi.net/archief/daily/dp388.html

DAILY PLANET 12 september 1996 editie: 3.88 

English translation:

1. Germans stop censorship

The German Internet Content Taskforce has changed its position 
regarding censorship on the Net. This was published in
a still secret press-release, that can be requested - but obviously
shouldn't be published yet - on the Net. De document was discovered,
by chance, by the editor of the Daily Planet. In this document, that
still has to be released oficially, the ICTF observes that 
censorship of the site XS4ALL is useless. The censored Radikal
pages can be found on many different places on the Net.
The ICTF recommends the German Prosecutor to only prosecute
the people that actually break the law, the user, and requests
not to prosecute the providers. The ICTF started the censorship
of XS4ALL, because they feared prosecution by the German prosecutor.
Typical of the behaviour of ICTF, a group of large providers
and publishers, is the following statement:"WARNING: This 
statement, and its appendixes may not be published on WWW-pages  or
quoted until the final version is ready." It almost sounds like an
invitation.  It shows the inexperience of ICTF with Internet. The
document is accesible to anyone that requests the directory of their
server. That's not even comparable to opening your doors to secret
meetings, but is more similar to dropping all your documents on the
streets, and tell people: "Please keep this secret!".

http://www.anwalt.de/ictf/_960910d.htm

(c) Francisco van Jole