[46323] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Tue Jan 2 22:22:02 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 96 18:51:19 EST
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960102092744.4338J-100000@goya>
David Mandl <dmandl@bear.com> writes:
> The number of people who drank booze when Prohibition began dwarfs the
> number of people who want access to "controlled" information on the
> net today. Most people still don't even understand what the net is.
> They're two completely different situations. Also, the powers that be
> have much better reasons for killing the net than they had for banning
> booze.
Also, the powers that be could have wiped out bootlegging if they really
wanted to -- by draconian means. Corrupt politicians at various levels chose
to let the laws be violated and to accept the bribes.
There's much less money involved in the distribution of "undesirable"
information.
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<a href="mailto:dlv@bwalk.dm.com">Dr. Dimitri Vulis</a>
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