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Me, Bob Allisat, wrote:
> Next wime read that Acceptable Use
> Policy (AUP) on your ISP. Inevitably
> it contains the Allisat Clause...
> which says failing all else these are
> our machines and we can do anything
> we damn well like with them. Go ahead,
> look, read and tell me I'm wrong.

Richard Sexton (richard@interlog.com) wrote:
: Ok, say you have an ISP and some asshole is makeing your life
: hell, costing you time (and therefore money) by doing something
: basically very uncool that you hadn't allowed for in your AUP.
:
: Now, the margins on running an ISP are very tight. Do
: you really want to spend 4 hours a day of your, or your
: staffs time to get this idiots $25 a month ?
:
: Incidentally, we don't call it the Allisat clause
: we call it the Bruce M. Lloyd clause, or just the
: "asshole clause".

- Democracy tolerates assholes.

+ Democracy was created by assholes.

= They used to draw and quarter, hang and shoot assholes.

~ Now you, Richard, speaking for the many ISP's advocate
  or rationalize the internet silencing of malcontents,
  cranks, nuts or the less common dissiters and protestors.

_ And you fully understand that in the very near future
  everything - taxes, business, talking to your grandma
  and doing the groceries - will be done via the Internet.

> Therefore you are supporting the virtual elimination of
  citizans, the cyber disappearing of anyone who displeases
  your business. I like you a lot Richard. But that is bullshit.
  A simple, brutal, facist logic that abandons our inallienable
  rights and freedoms for commercial, corporate agendas.

* I resist.
                             Bob Allisat

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