🚀 go-pugleaf

 As Mr. Jones may know a new group is poised to take the
 reins of the Toronto Freenet. If I am elected among them
 to the Board of Directors foremost among my efforts will
 be to entrench the Electronic Bill of Rights in this
 organization and to promulgate it throughout the Internet.

 We must resist the persistant and continuing erosion of our
 Human Rights, Civil Liberties and Freedom of Expression on
 the electronic media from commercial or political pressures. 
 Fuck the Canadian Association of Internet Providers. FUCK
 their Code of Conduct as well. Freedom for all citizans!

                        Bob Allisat



B. R. Stephen Peer <peer@interlog.com> quotes EFC David Jones:
>
>[EFC message follows] 
>---------------------
>
>Your cyberspace rights are at risk.
>   You need to do something to protect them, right now.
>
>
>1. CAIP MEETING  (CAIP = Canadian Association of Internet Providers)
>
>   A group of Canada's largest ISPs are meeting in Montreal, Thursday Oct 8.
>
>   On the agenda is a new `voluntary' Code of Conduct.
>   With the current climate of fear and uncertainty among
>   Canadian ISPs, many seem willing to sacrifice *your* privacy
>   and free speech rights to reduce their own legal liability.
>
>   * PRIVACY
>
>   Should your ISP disclose the contents of your e-mail, or where you've been
>   surfing on the web, to third parties, or to the police without a warrant?
>   Too many ISPs seem eager to `cooperate' with law enforcement,
>   in any way they can.
>
>   * FREE SPEECH
>
>   Many ISPs seem prepared to follow the lead of iSTAR and censor
>   controversial Usenet newsgroups.  Many ISPs describe this as a kind of
>   `self-censorship', but what is really happening is a few big corporations
>   are making decisions about what *you* can access in cyberspace.
>
>
>2. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
>
>   These are *your* rights that have been placed on the bargaining table,
>   and you weren't invited to the negotiations!  Since no final version
>   of the Code of Conduct has been adopted, now is the time to voice
>   your concerns.  Here's what we want all EFC members to do:
>
>   (A) Pick up the>I am posting this message received today from Electronic Frontier Canada, a 
>group that was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian 
>Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new computing, communications, 
>and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.
>
>Could our use of the newsgroups be censored in the near future??!!
>I am posting this message received today from Electronic Frontier Canada, a 
>group that was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian 
>Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new computing, communications, 
>and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.
>
>Could our use of the newsgroups be censored in the near future??!!
>I am posting this message received today from Electronic Frontier Canada, a 
>group that was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian 
>Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new computing, communications, 
>and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.
>
>Could our use of the newsgroups be censored in the near future??!!
>I am posting this message received today from Electronic Frontier Canada, a 
>group that was founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian 
>Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new computing, communications, 
>and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society.
>
>Could our use of the newsgroups be censored in the near future??!!
 telephone -- TODAY.
>       Call your ISP and tell them not to deal away
>       your privacy and free speech rights,
>       or else they'll lose a valuable customer.
>       If you can't get through on the telephone, use e-mail.
>
>   (B) Tell your friends to call their ISP as well.
>       The more the merrier.
>
>   Remember, the meeting is this Thursday (October 10),
>   so you need to contact your ISP on Wednesday.
>
>   Individual Internet users number in the hundreds of thousands
>   in Canada, and it is individual rights that are at stake.
>   If you value these rights, speak now, or forever hold your tongue.
>
>David Jones / Electronic Frontier Canada
>djones@efc.ca --- http://www.efc.ca/