[11672] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: PC Mag Bashes Internet! Good Job!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Manning)
Wed Apr 13 07:28:06 1994
From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
To: kgibbs@world.std.com (Kelly E Gibbs)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 23:08:13 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404122129.AA15394@world.std.com> from "Kelly E Gibbs" at Apr 12, 94 05:29:37 pm
Just what do you read?
I find that my children spend inordinate amounts of time on the
net. Watching TV is only for special programs now... the ones
they pick. They are working on etext transcription for Project
Gutenburg. They are playing chess and some other games in MUD
world. They don't have time for the politics and other trash that
exist in places like com-priv. Politics and other obsenities
are properly reserved for adults.
You seem to have a very restricted view of the net. Do you really think
that government (any government) can regulate net access? Not likely.
If the US wants to censor my access, I'll buy from Mexico or Norway.
The US will become an information backwater.
In the current net, both my fundamentalist (christian/islamic) friends
have set up servers to reflect thier particular beliefs, while my legal
friends spend lots of time wading in the (increasingly) large pool of
data that interests them.
The net is what you make it. If you spend your time w/ com-priv &
alt.sex.hamsters.duct-tape then you deserve the intellectual level
you get. Me? I read it for Joe Stroup postings. Honest!
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Regards,
Bill Manning
