On Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:33:21 -0500 Murph Sewall <[log in to unmask]> said: >>Let me put it this way. If this act passes, the Internet as we know it, >>and AOL, CompuServe and others, are dead. > >Probably not. In the first place, even the current conservative Supreme >Court is likely to rule it unConstitutional. I meant if it passes all the legal barriers on its way, whose detail I'm afraid I'm not familiar with :-) >Aside from a few U.S. Senators who've clearly spent too much time >confined inside the Beltway, Actually, US senators tend to live in VA :-) >Think of the money to be made setting up hosts in the Cayman Islands >(hmmm... could I make as much a Mr. Bill? ;-) Unfortunately, the way I read the legalese that was posted I'm not sure it would work. If I run a mailing list in Sweden with US citizens subscribed to it, I am unlikely to be arrested, although I wouldn't be too surprised if a few FBI agents from the local US Branch Office paid me a visit and tried to intimidate me. However this wouldn't really help Joe US citizen if he posted "obscene" material from the US to my list. This being said, if I ran a service like playboy.com, yes I would probably relocate my web server outside US jurisdiction. But there the situation is different because the material is provided by the webmaster, and not by a third party. Eric