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Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada

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From: Clay Shirky
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 02:13
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In <2ngdvd$oeq@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG> buchang@CAM.ORG (Gordon H. Buchan) writes:

>At least as a Canadian citizen with a modem, hard currency, and very 
>sincere American generousity and friendship, I can find out the truth. 

Amen. I hope when the tables are turned (and they will be, with the
noises the NSA and FBI are making) that the Canadians will help us
beat the ban, however it is constructed.

>Canadians are often smug about their place in North America. They 
>consider themselves more civilized, more European, more educated than 
>Americans. 

This is pretty close to the truth, actually...

>Yet how much we Canadians have to learn from our American 
>neighbors about freedom and civil protest. Let the lessons continue.

Amen again.
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From: clays@panix.com (Clay Shirky)
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Subject: Re: WiReD Magazine - Banned in Canada
Date: 1 Apr 1994 21:13:37 -0500
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