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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordan Paunovic" <gordan@opennet.org> To: <internodium@mailhost.soros.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 6:13 AM Subject: [internodium] Serb Government Ready to Take Over Internet? > www.beograd.com > > 10:07 Serb Government Ready to Take Over Internet? > > As beograd.com has learned from well-informed sources, The Law on > Public Companies and Activities of Public Interest taking effect as of > today, provides that private Companies from field of > telecommunications and information must make a contract with the > state. According to the contract, the state will have to agree with > their statutes, tariffs and all other decisions. The Law will include > Internet providers in Serbia. > > According to beograd.com source, this will, in practice, made > accessible lists of users, their activity on the net and copies of > their e-mails to state officials. Besides, authorities will have full > insight into financial part of Internet providing. > > "We thought taking over of Internet impossible, but we were obviously > wrong," says our source, "and the state would be now able to increase > the price of access so high, that nobody will be able to pay. > Providers, who already have high financial obligations abroad, will > inevitably go bankrupt. Internet will be accessible only to those who > obey." > > > -- > Distributed via Internodium mailing list. Point your browser to > www.internodium.org.yu for more info. To unsubscribe, write to > majordomo@soros.org and put the following text in the body of > the message: unsubscribe internodium # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net