 j jim whitehead ejw cse ucsc edu writes j seems that governments do have some power over the j web after all at the NUMBER itac roadwork conference peter mansbridge asked the panel of experts how it might be possible to censor the internet all of the panelists laughed except bill buxton peter asked him if he knew something the others didn t bill replied that it was possible to censor the internet which drew a gasp from the audience all you need is a global government more draconian than any that has occured before in history scientology dmca suits against norwegians legal riaa file trading virii bush s homeland insecurity canada using isps as spies riaa suing prodigy for pNUMBERp users and having foreign sites barred from the us france tempers yahoo china ip filters google seems bill didn t know much about how government really works either that or there s a smelly similarity between buxton s global big brother and the us and chinese gary lawrence murphy garym teledyn com teledynamics communications inc business advantage through community software URL computers are useless they can only give you answers pablo picasso 