All, Well well now, seems that free speech is to be seriously encroached upon in Japan by 2010 if the Japanese parliament has it's way. I think Wikipedia, Wikileaks Google, Grudge, Yahoo and Doubleclick are going to have problems here... Will such proposed legislation in Japan facilitate the blocking/censoring of Wikipedia, et., al. in Japan? We'll see... This proposed legislation may make the Great Firewall of China look like a wimpy dragon... http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/27/technology/wireless28.php A Japanese government panel is proposing to govern " http://www.cosplayers.net/ influential, widely read news-related sites as newspapers and broadcasting are now regulated." The panel, set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said Internet service providers (ISPs) should be answerable for breaches of vaguer "minimum regulations" to guard against "illegal and harmful content." The conservative government, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, is seeking to have the new laws passed by Parliament in 2010." Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827