to quote Barlow -- the First Ammendment is a local ordinance

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

FREE SPEECH IN ASIA ON INTERNET
Asia now has more than 110,000 Internet users (more than 3.4% of the
worldwide total), and many of them are enjoying the new freedom of
expression available to them on the network and using it to criticize each
other and their governments. Some governments don't like it much: in
Singapore 80,000 user files were searched in response to an "urgent"
request from high-ranking officials to find digitized pornographic images.
(Wall Street Journal 12/8/94 B4)