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Date: Sun Apr 08 2001 - 15:38:08 CDT

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http://www.theinquirer.net/08040101.htm

By Mike Magee, 8 April 2001 06.20 BST

AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE STORY of how the German secretary of the
Interior, Herr Otto Schily, considered silencing US servers hosting
Nazi sites using DoS (denial of service) attacks is unravelling on the
Web.

Der Spiegel carries an account of how Schily considered the attacks to
prevent neo-Nazis and Nazis from spreading their message on the WWW.

A spokesperson for the minister explained in Der Spiegel that DoS
attacks take minutes, while "legal methods" take months, and that the
US First Amendment allows the promulgation of Nazi and neo-Nazi news
and views.

Germany has some tough anti-Nazi laws, introduced after the end of the
Second World War.

While the German newspaper has now turned this into a cause celebre,
it appears that an earlier article from the Washington Post had this
news first on the 21st December. Maybe Yule or something got in the
way of others picking it up. You can find the Washington Post piece
here.

http://www.steptoe.com/webdoc.nsf/Files/schily/$file/schily.html

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