[973] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Privitization is the issue today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Fri Jul 12 23:15:36 1991
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 22:14:41 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: ambar@athena.mit.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Jean Marie Diaz's message of Fri, 12 Jul 91 20:02:47 -0400 <9107130002.AA07188@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
> I'm anxious to address these important issues, in a thoughtful and
> completely fair way.
>Let's see. This is the same man who set up a fake account on his BBS
>with a female name in order to monitor the Sappho mailing list, whose
>public description requests that men respect its women-only policy and
>not join.
Perhaps he felt that he was justified in doing so; perhaps he felt
that it should be illegal to set up a gender-restricted service with
federal funds.
Of course, he went about it in the wrong way--he should have used his
own name, and gone to court if necessary.
(I agree that's not the most likely reason. Most likely he just
wanted to spy.)
>"completely fair". Hmm. This must be some new use of the English
>language I'm not familiar with, even though I am a writer by trade.
>Or perhaps honesty is just not an "important issue".
Journalists seem to feel that they have a right to publicize anything;
there are cases in which they decide that right supercedes things like
privacy, honesty, and accuracy.
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