[49866] in Cypherpunks
Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Mon Feb 12 06:40:09 1996
From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 06:36:05 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
(I agree with nearly everything in Strata's "Refutation" essay. In
particular, I find his comments on the net.pundits' hypocrisy about net.bias
and prejudice to be extremely accurate.)
James Donald writes:
[...various points about "cohesion"...]
> In an all out knock down battle between a particular government and the
> internet, in a state where a substantial proportion of the middle class
> was on the internet, the government would be in serious danger of
> evaporating like a jellyfish in the sunshine.
I'm afraid I'm not willing to take this on faith. Strata made some good
observations about the tangible vulnerability of the net-as-we-know-it to
government intervention. If you'd like to try to rebut some of his arguments
a bit more specifically, I'd be very interested in reading about it.
-Lewis "You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive
your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers;
don't it leave you on the empty side ?" (Joni Mitchell, 1972)
