On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:53:21 -0600 Mark J Roberts <mjr at znex.org> writes: > Kevin Atkinson: > > What does the Internet really mean? It means uncensored instant > > access to any sort of information. > > The Internet means no such thing. The notion that the development > of > technology will thwart censorship is nothing more than a historical > prophecy, and its proponents employ it to avoid moral debate.
The internet is nothing more than another communications medium. Like radio or Telegraph or any other method of communication. The difference isn't speed, that is debateable, the difference is interconnectability. The network is the important thing. The ability to connect to someone on the other side of the planet, even if it is slow, is remarkable. And the kinds of information you can send and recieve is also remarkable. > > > Hardly anyone sees that in with the existence of the Internet it > > is going to imposable to control the flow of information, period. > > The only way to stop this flow of information is to ban people > all > > together from the Internet. Any sort of censorship and copy > > protection is going to be defeated, plain and simple. I agree. Censorship will be nearly impossible without doing major damage to any free society. Even banning people from the internet will be a major undertakeing. Thanks to Freenet, censorship is a lot harder. :) > > Technology is not a gift from space aliens who occasionally drop > new gadgets from their UFOs and watch us modify our society to > conform to a new technological mold. That statement makes absolutely no sense at all. Are you just trolling again MJR?! :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/chat/attachments/20020121/07ed3f0e/attachment.html>
