[9219] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Wed Dec 22 18:09:47 1993
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 14:30:09 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Tom Limoncelli's message of Wed, 22 Dec 1993 09:41:11 -0500 (EST) <199312221441.AA13188@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
>One way of dealing with local censurship codes is to consider
>cyberspace a separate country. All connected segments that are defined
^^^^^^^
Under which country's laws?
>(find some legal person to figure out how) as a comon carrier would be
>a separate county. With it's own non-ruling non-government, countries
>could consider each connection an embassy.
No chance. The territorial governments would never go for it. Think
about it: to hide your illegal operation's ledgers, you'd just have to
keep them on a machine on the Net. Anyway, embassies are always on a
case-by-case basis.
>I have long considered myself the Ambassador To Cyberspace from the
>planet earth.
<eyebrows up> *The* Ambassador?
> I live on earth. Friend of mine, however, really do
>live in Cyberspace. Some friends of mine live in Cyberspace, even when
>they're visiting this planet.
Right. Tell that to the tax collectors.
What you're doing here is asking the territorial governments to give
up some of their sovereignty, asking them to yield up power that they
currently have over their citizens. Only way to get them to do that
is a revolution. It could happen, if the Net became sufficiently
important to the running of the infrastructure for a boycott by the
Net to outweigh military power, and if netizens could be convinced
that The Manifest Destiny Of The Net was reason enough to turn on
their physical-world neighbors. Bets?
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