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

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From: Karl Mamer
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 00:00
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ab330@torfree.net (Bob Allisat) writes:
> 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.

boB could you post this clause. Forgive me, but I'm
not taking your word for it.

> _ 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.

Really? They've been prattling on about the death of
paper and newsprint for the last 20 years. Ain't
happened.

> > 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.

Slippery slope, boB.

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From: kamamer@interlog.com (Karl Mamer)
Subject: Re: ISP: A Public Service (Re: now@freenet.toronto.on.ca)
Date: 1997/02/03
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