[muawiyah]

Maggie Thatcher said that when it comes to freedom of speech the world is divided into two camps. In the first camp we find the United States. In the second camp we find the rest of the world.

In brief, of course some European ISP is going to "take down" FreeRepublic should someone be so foolish as to utilize some hapless European ISP for web-hosting duties.

[Mark]

In cases where a site contains content that is clearly illegal, like child pornography, the law is cut and dried.

Child pornography is anything but cut and dried. There are a lot of gray areas in that. Now the isp situation, I think there is going to be a large number of very happy attorneys.

[Ken H]

Can't the website owners in EU-occupied territory just have their websites served by an ISP in areas that don't censor political speech?

[toddst]

Ok newbie, I have a problem with you. All I ever see is material you post, never any comments from you. What are your thoughts? Why is that? Nothing on you whatever. Convince me why you're a good guy.