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Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)

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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article <E4wr3L.M7J.0.bloor@torfree.net>,
Bob Allisat <ab330@torfree.net> wrote:
>
>phoenix@torfree.net Rick Pikul wrote:
>:        Bob, do you have some problem with the concept of private
>:property?  His server is just that: _HIS_ server.  He can set any
>:restrictions or requirements he wishes on people using it, if they
>:don't like his rules they don't have to use his server...
>:
>:        In this country you have the right to freedom of movement, 
>:but if you don't get off my property when I tell you to I _will_ throw 
>:you off.
>
> And if everything is privatized
> and commercialized from parks
> and forests to all electronic           Property rights
> media then I guess you'll have          are subserviant
> to throw me off the planet eh?          to Environmental
> Because you can go fuck yourself        protection, Civil
> and I'll do what I please within        liberties, common
> appropriate ecological guidelines,      decent laws and
> my human rights and civil liberties     Human rights.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^

No they arn't. You may wish they were, but they simply arn't.

For proof try going into a grocery store and demand a loaf of bread
free as a basic human right.

Now, there are food banks, so you're not the only one with this ideal.

Great. vrx is the food bank of the internet.

-- 
Richard Sexton
richard@alter.nic            We are all the Alter.NIC
richard@vrx.net               http://www.alternic.net
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From: richard@interlog.com (Richard Sexton)
Subject: Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
Date: 1997/02/01
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