1984 Foreword: Internet and social control

[barbara100 at jps.net]

The solution might not be in controlling the Internet at all, but in
electing governmental representatives less inclined toward that
fascistic disposition in the first place.
Like maybe Dennis Kucinich here at home...

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>

> And even allowing it as a legitimate concern, what's the solution?
Increased
> regulation? Total deregulation (thereby allowing child pornographers and
> terrorist networks free rein and absolute legal impunity)? Boycott?
> Sabotage? Smashing all the computers like some modern-day Lud? Or, most
> bizarre of all, putting one's name to (and brazenly advertising) a manual
> which not only assists but *encourages* all the corporate sharks in their
> ongoing manipulations of the medium for the purposes of, if not fun,
> certainly profit, social control and, potentially anyway, tyranny, while
> simultaneously calling for the moderation of an open discussion forum and
> flooding the 'Net with propagandistic spam on a daily basis?!
>
> best
>