Still Nabokov-free WAS Re: NN Gibson re Orwell

[David Morris]

Jasper,

Knowlege and reason have no place in this argument, so you'd best stop trying
to use them right now.  This is purely a matter of faith in the infallibility
of the Great Pynchon.

DM

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> > You don't know what you're talking about it.[...]
> 
> This is terribly simplistic and inaccurate.  These "software and hardware
> and systems" you mention are *decentralized*, and supplied by ISPs, telecom
> companies, and other Points of Presence (like the server sitting next to my
> desk) which are subject to government control only insofar as they are
> regulated by that government on that government's soil (as radio frequencies
> or controlled substances are regulated).  And even the aggregate of ISPs and
> telecoms and PoPs cannot be said to comprise (let alone "control") the
> internet, which is such a chaotic network of networks that nobody even has
> any idea of its size.

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