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Was JOHN PERRY BARLOW all a waste of time? EFF incompetence?

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From: M.Grubor
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
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In <DMp73F.D2L@world.std.com> boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy)
writes: 
>
>In article <DMLz8n.At3.0.queen@torfree.net>,
>Bob Allisat <ab330@torfree.net> wrote:
>>
>>      Barlow spews. Barlow chokes. Barlow crashes. Hail to the
>>      gods of the discredited and defeated! Hark to their hollow
>>      words and bow before them in humility. Hosana, hosana!
>>
>>      Now it's time to take the matter into our own hands as
>>      leaderless individuals. We don't need no mind control thanks
>>      very much Mr. Barlow. What we need is action from individuals.
>>
>>      The censors will only be defeated by openly discussing
everything
>>      they are trying to supress. Stupid declarations of independance
>>      (or even a Bill of rights!) won't do a damn thing. Action. Now.
>>
>>                            Bob Allisat
>>
>>                     http://www.vrx.net/allisat
>>
>
>
>	Barlow has no shame does he??  Even the ACLU are disgusted with
>the EFF.  Maybe he's going in to journalism--sure isn't interested in
>users on the net--businesses maybe--buy not users.
>
>				Steve
>
>
>>
>>> From: John Perry Barlow <barlow@eff.org> Subject: A Cyberspace
>>> Independence Declaration 
>>> 
>>> Yesterday, that great invertebrate in the White House signed into
>>> the law the Telecom "Reform" Act of 1996, while Tipper Gore took
>>> digital photographs of the proceedings to be included in a book
>>> called "24 Hours in Cyberspace." 
>>> 
>>> I had also been asked to participate in the creation of this book
>>> by writing something appropriate to the moment. Given the atrocity
>>> that this legislation would seek to inflict on the Net, I decided
>>> it was as good a time as any to dump some tea in the virtual
>>> harbor. 
>>> (PUKE...snip)
>>
>
>
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From: zando@ix.netcom.com(M.Grubor )
Subject: Was JOHN PERRY BARLOW all a waste of time?  EFF incompetence?
Date: 1996/02/15
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