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Re: Digital Bill of Rights? (Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Thu Feb 4 00:45:56 1999

Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:11:38 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990203140828.B8090@qual.net>

At 14:08 2/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>  If every ISP has the same AUP then every citizen
>>  is forced under duress by a cartel of interests
>>  into violating their own human rights, freedom
>>  of expression and civil liberties. So fuck your
>>  Acceptable Policies! What we need is a Digital
>>  Bill of Rights <http://fcn.net> to over-ride
>>  these sinister commercial carte blanche policies
>>  and protect us from bastards like Mr. Neill.
>

Acceptable policies like the one you probably had to agree to?  And since
when is "Internet Access" a human right like "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness"?

Before a bunch of people jump on this bandwagon and/or respond, you'd be
well advised to look at the website listed and see where Mr. Allistat is
coming from.  It's...enlightening.



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