From: lunaslide@loop.com
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 07:58:35 +0800
To: die@die.com
Subject: Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
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}        A lot of people forget the basic truth that the net is based
}almost entirely on physical communications facilities owned for the most
}part by huge corperations that have deeply incestuous relationships with
}the political power structure and very little interest in preserving the
}self important dreams of a few members of a self selected net "elite".
}If ordered to pull the plug they will, and cyberspace as we know it will
}evaporate overnight.

Why should businesses cooperate with and help protect a govt that it's
needs would be better met without their existance?  Eve in the near future
during which busniesses will play by _most_ of the rules, those businesses
that own most of the net will not shut it down because it conflicts with
their business interests in a _major_ way.  Shutting down the internet for
even a day would loose these people so much money and time that if the govt
were to ask them to shut it down, they would seriously believe that they
are joking.  They would laugh, and the govt wouldn't be able to do shit
about it.

The net is something that has grown like ivy in an ivy-league school; it
can never be eradicated.  Too many people rely on it, it is too big an
income for big business and none of those businessed could shut it down
completely.  Routing errors, misplaced domains, sure, but the net would
survive and it would heal it's own wounds.


<rm>
}
}                                                A defeated pessimist,
}                                                die@die.com

I believe that most of us on this group are here because we have principles
that compel us to fight for our freedom and privacy.  For me, those
principles are strong enough that if to die fighting for them is my fate,
than that is how I will give my life.  To lay down my arms, to give up
before I'm dead or the war is over is to bring shame and dishonor upon
myself that I could not bear to live with.  I would never be able to look
my unborn children in the eyes again because I would know that I did not do
my part in the fight; I did not stand my ground.

BTW, I just turned 22 years old in January and if I hear anyone ,
especially anyone on this list, call my generation a bunch of slackers
again, I will seek you out, tie you to a chair and force you to watch every
episode of Guiligan's Island and The Brady Bunch five times each.

lunaslide

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to
control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things
that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very
principles upon which our government was founded."
- -- Abraham Lincoln

On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion
creating the illusion of truth and drama.
                                                Henry Miller
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