Article View: alt.wired
Article #337Re: Cyberspace Independence Declaration (Barlow)
From: Stephen Boursy
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00
44 lines
3175 bytes
3175 bytes
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) >
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<DMp73F.D2L@world.std.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<4fg57a$fnb@nyx10.cs.du.edu <DMLz8n.At3.0.queen@torfree.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11544f,bc2d5d522028285e X-Google-Attributes: gid11544f,public X-Google-Thread: 100ecf,cd41f7b0043fbbe3 X-Google-Attributes: gid100ecf,public X-Google-Thread: 114c14,bc2d5d522028285e X-Google-Attributes: gid114c14,public X-Google-Thread: 109f22,a05ecb77b3e135b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109f22,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,a05ecb77b3e135b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10f35e,a05ecb77b3e135b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f35e,public X-Google-Thread: 1085e3,a05ecb77b3e135b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1085e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1159e4,a05ecb77b3e135b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1159e4,public From: boursy@world.std.com (Stephen Boursy) Subject: Re: Cyberspace Independence Declaration (Barlow) Date: 1996/02/13 Message-ID: <DMp73F.D2L@world.std.com> X-Deja-AN: 139440467 references: <4fg57a$fnb@nyx10.cs.du.edu <DMLz8n.At3.0.queen@torfree.net> organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA 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