[Fwd: Fwd: Very Important, read, react, forward]

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Fri Jan 9 22:14:34 1998

Well, it's not going to affect all of us. I don't see how the government
can even claim to control the Internet. (Watch how I so cleverly tangle
classics into this. ;-) )
    The Internet is like space: Something which is relatively (accesibly)
new. With Space, an agreement was made saying how it belonged to all
nations. (That's my understading)
    Now, ever since the first TCP was made on a PDP-11/?? (sorry, memory's a
bit bad) The 'Net has been rapidly growing. It's truely international.
Here, we've got examples. People from US-Europe-Asia-Austrilia are
collecting classics. Now, is it legal for the (US) government to censor a
message say going from Tony-Riccardo (In Italy) I mean, it might not even
go through a US server. The Internet should be out of any government's
controls. We should just have an open standard. Governments should be able
to VOTE, on an equal basis of that with companies, etc. And then there are
those "encryption standards" last summer.... wiped out any chance of brain
activity in DC, outside of businesses....
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Very Important, read, react, forward]


>Joe wrote:
>>
>> At 10:28 PM 1/8/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> >
>> >Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...two words...'topic' is one. 'off' is the other.
>> >
>> >=-)
>> >
>> >Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
>>
>> One more word ---- HOAX! Since when did the FCC start regulating the
>> telephone industry? Phone rates are set by the individual state public
>> service commisions not by the FCC.
>
>Sorry to say, it _does_ affect us (though yes, it's off-topic, but most
>of us communicate through Internet links). The FedGov has a couple of
>taxes on local phone bills for many years. And unless you've forgotten
>the CDA, they want control over the Net, with special tools to decode
>any messages someone wants private. Classic computers will not work
>with those standards, of course. Yes, even if you aren't libertarian.
>(I know damned well that there are one or two socialists on this list),
>we can be affected -- we can be forbidden to communicate. And there
>are at _least_ two attempts in progress to "reword" the CDA so that it
>takes away just as much freedom but doesn't hit the federal judicial
>hot buttons.
>
>Seems outrageous? The First Amendment covers everything. Presently.
>transmitting Nobel's (the guy who funded the Prize) formula for
>explosives is being watched by our "masters". Some of us collect
>computers that may have been in government hands before the general
>policy of "rip out the hard disk and hit it with the chainsaw" came
>into effect. Other hobbies have been crippled by the government --
>remember guns (my next love after computers as computers are my next
>love after science fiction)? Oh, it's platonic.
>--
>Ward Griffiths
>Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
> before they're allowed to be free?
>WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
> they'll never be free.
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