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allisat@lglobal.com (Bob Allisat) wrote:


>  iSTAR, a company in Canada, has removed dozens of UseNet
>  Newsgroups which they have been advised by their ill informed
>  lawyers are illegal. No charges have *ever* been laid and
>  no court has acted in any way shape or form against anyone.

>  Corporate assets take precedence over our rights and
>  freedoms as citizens and  we are slowly losing ground in
>  the battle over the electronic media. Losing to people
>  who put their fucking machines and gross profits over and
>  above our interests. People who would control our every
>  move, monitor our every communication if they could and
>  if it meant more money. Fuck them all. 

>  We, the people, will have to resist this ongoing slide
>  into full blown censorship. We will have to do this 
>  actively, by circumventing all and any attempts to shut
>  down communications in very public displays of resistance.
>  iSTAR and all the other narrow minded money obsessed and
>  fundamentally unintelligent organizations will have to
>  learn graphically that the interests of a free citizenry
>  to knowledge takes precedence over their fucking corporate
>  image and assets. A message we shall have to shove down
>  their throats - and that means every single citizen, okay
>  and not just me. Or else you all get what you deserve:


Your message is the second best way of expressing your outrage over
the actions of iStar and other internet provider censors.  The best
way is to use your dollars: take your business elsewhere.  There is
nothing that iStar will understand better than a tidal wave of
cancellations.

Some internet subscribers will prefer to have their access to some
newsgroups censored.  I believe it is a good thing for net access
providers to voluntarily tailor the service they are providing to the
wants of their subscribers.  The evil to avoid is censorship issuing
out of the government or the courts.  As long as there can be internet
providers who continue to serve anything and everything your freedom
is unthreatened.

Morton M. Goldmacher
Barrister and Solicitor