On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:32:19 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Any time the government becomes involved in something as essential [5
> years ago, no -- now, YES] as the internet, things can only get worse.
..I hope you are talking about *your* government...
Essential services in Australia used to be trusted to nobody but
government. Now that they are being sold off like a fire sale to try to
keep up the $A, things get worse. Now these "essential" services have
middlemen with american accents paying themselves obscene salaries out
of taxpayers money to do a worse service with fancier trimmings...
A short list reads:
Education
Jails
health
telecommunications
transport
media
scientific research
software
I sympathised with the rioters recently here at the world trade
conference.....but did not agree with their methods. I think they should
have more
conferences to find out how the other half have to live, and to learn a
bit of basic science also while they are at it!
That said.....
Yes there have been some popularist efforts here to control the
internet.
Thankfully most just wink and smile while the right noises are being
made.
On the broader matter of censorship, can you explain to me why gross
violence seems tolerated in US media, but sex is not? Is it because USA
is not a secular government? You would think that would make it more
preoccupied with efficient and equitable essential services.
Is the violence a code for the apocalypse?
Kali
http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali
