From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:30:25 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: Fighting the cybercensor
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blanc <blancw@cnw.com> writes:

> From:	Dr.Dimitri Vulis
>
> However U.S.G. is able to say that people of Iraq or Lybia or Cuba should
> not be permitted on the 'net. It also bombs Iraq and murders their
> civilians
> in retaliation for something their governments supposedly did.
> ................................................................
>
> The U.S.G. has many more resources than most of us to do these things,
> including equipment, cooperative troops, money, and recognition from other
> governments.   If other nations disagree with the U.S.G. they have the
> resources to discuss, bargain, negotiate, criticize, form alliances, take
> their chances and retaliate, etc.
>
> These things are done on a level not accessible to the most of us.  All
> that we individuals have are access to telephone lines, computers, and
> modems.   Yet even as we speak the world is being "wired" with cables to
> further make this singular communication possible and open up avenues to
> non-government organized activities:   international corporations are se
> tting up offices, services, and correspondence wherever in the world they
> can find markets.   All this is happening even while the governments are
> complaining to each other about what their citizens are posting (tch, tch)
> and threatening to deprive each other of that privilege.
>
> While governments and their True Believer citizens are dealing with each
> other on one level, the rest of the world is reorganizing itself into a
> different order of living and doing business.   They are sharing ideas and
> examining their concepts and beliefs, they are conducting a lot of their
> disagreements on the net (instead of physically against each other on the
> ground), opening up to a broader view of relationships between individuals,
> or to governments, or to religions, sexuality, etc.

And "cypher punks" bend over for a NSA stooge and allow U.S.G. to
further curtail free speech.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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