From: "Luciano Dondero" <dond001-AT-IT.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 20:17:59 +0000
Subject: M-I: (Fwd) tentativo di censurare gli appelli dell'MRTA su internet


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From:          margiotta-AT-tightrope.it (Margiotta Nello)
Date:          Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:52:18 +0100
Attempts To Censor Sites

Some Latin American governments have tried suppressing the
guerrillas in cyberspace. At the behest of Colombia's government,
Mexican authorities squashed a Web page run by the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia last fall through a server based in
Mexico. The group has continued communications through electronic
mail while it tries to set up a new site, perhaps through another
host in another country.

In the past, the Peruvian government has cracked down on
traditional forms of subversive propaganda, such as newspapers.
Peruvian security forces were widely thought to be behind the
fire bombing of the offices of El Diario, the now-defunct
newspaper of the Shining Path, a larger, more violent Peruvian
rebel group. But countering propaganda on the Internet is much
more complicated, authorities concede. "We can't very well cut
phone lines and confiscate computers," says one Peruvian
government official.

Tupac Amaru's cyberspace allies include some at the University of
California at San Diego. One site run by Tupac Amaru
sympathizers, the Solidarity Page, is located on that school's
computer network. Officials at the university were unaware of the
site and said that, because of the holiday break, they weren't
able to reach personnel knowledgeable about it. But Bruce Miller,
assistant university librarian, indicated that universities don't
traditionally object to the use of school computers for free
speech.

"Generally, among universities, there is a principle of academic
freedom, and a researcher writes and publishes whatever is
appropriate within his area of specialization," Mr. Miller said.
He added that he didn't "have a clue" about the Tupac Amaru
information.

Rebels On The Web:

Voz Rebelde Page:
http://www.cybercity.dk/users/ccc17427/

Solidarity Page:
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/mrta.htm

(This article appeared on page A8 of The Wall Street Journal,
Monday, January 6, 1997)

-- Luciano Dondero -- 


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