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Article #331Was JOHN PERRY BARLOW all a waste of time? EFF incompetence?
From: M.Grubor
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,bc2d5d522028285e X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 100ecf,cd41f7b0043fbbe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid100ecf,public X-Google-Thread: 114c14,bc2d5d522028285e X-Google-Attributes: gid114c14,public X-Google-Thread: 109f22,a05ecb77b3e135b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109f22,public X-Google-Thread: 10f35e,a05ecb77b3e135b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f35e,public X-Google-Thread: 1159e4,a05ecb77b3e135b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1159e4,public X-Google-Thread: 1085e3,a05ecb77b3e135b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1085e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,a05ecb77b3e135b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public From: zando@ix.netcom.com(M.Grubor ) Subject: Was JOHN PERRY BARLOW all a waste of time? EFF incompetence? Date: 1996/02/15 Message-ID: <4fvfe9$c28@reader2.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 139497771 distribution: inet references: <4fg57a$fnb@nyx10.cs.du.edu <DMLz8n.At3.0.queen@torfree.net> <DMp73F.D2L@world.std.com> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Thu Feb 15 6:19:53 AM PST 1996 newsgroups: alt.wired,alt.censorship,news.admin.policy,alt.is.too,alt.politics.reform,rec.music.gdead,comp.org.eff.talk,earth.general,alt.politics.greens,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.usa.congress,alt.politics.radical-left,ca.politics,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.misc,can.politics,can.general,alt.activism,alt.usenet.culture,soc.culture.usenet,la.general,tor.general,mtl.general,alt.journalism,alt.cyberspace