[9404] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: International Enforcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anil Srivastava)
Tue Jan 4 12:42:32 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 12:39:45 -0500
From: Anil Srivastava <anil@applelink.apple.com>
To: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
It will change, or rather, it is changing. There use to be a lot of talk
about "transborder data flow" and subject of many a learned confrences where
people pontificated about the need to save cultures from being invaded. I am
glad that like the Berlin wall, networks are spreading, bringing in their
wake a lot of good (and bad) but in the end it will work out for the benfit
of all...
I genuinely believe that to be true. There are questions of access and
equity. But given the good forces that are driving internet, inspite of some
bad that may be, it brings about a networking of minds. And all assembly of
good people can only produce good action. I almost sound like a Christian
preacher but I like a world free of passports, custom checkposts, guards with
their nervous fingers on triggers of sinister looking weapons, and above all
gatekeepers.
All the talk about the sleaze on the internet does not worry me because the
children must learn to discriminate and chose. They see it on the street and
encounter worse in real life. They should be enabled to deal with it. But
what excites me is the openness, the friendships, the intellectual
fraternities and communities that get created. What excites me is the new
technologies and the underlyin g philosophies that shape it. I get enthused
by the common weal of creating easier and better access.
In the end, Internet sprit will prevail, holding hand in hand, linking
together to create a better world.
I am all for ignoring the gatekeepers and breaking down the walls. A
conscious and deliberate act of each keystroke...
(Syruppy, but that's how I fel about it).
