From: tc <72417.1514@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: alt.online-service.compuserve,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Compuserve lies about the Germans
Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:45:12 GMT
Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
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CompuServe is starting to look worse and worse in this thing.  I'm still 
waiting for the real story.  Here is an excerpt from a story on the AP:

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   Munich prosecutor Manfred Wick confirmed Friday that Bavarian state
police investigators searched CompuServe's networks and computers last
month for child pornography, but he would not say what they found.
   "We didn't threaten them with charges," Wick said.
   Arno Edelmann, a CompuServe product manager in Unterhaching,
Germany, said Friday that the company blocked access to 200
sex-oriented newsgroups in a portion of the Internet called Usenet.
   "It is perhaps an overreaction but we want to cooperate with the
Bavarian prosecutor's office," Edelmann said.
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And here is an excerpt from CIS' original press release:

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German government officials, as part of an investigation of illegal material
on the Internet, ordered CompuServe to do what was necessary with respect to
specified newsgroups in order to comply with German law.
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--tc