?? Hypothesis: It's not a question of the networks, it's a question of the legal
frameworks that have jurisdiction in the final analysis over the networks.
Unfortunately, it remains to be proven that the corpus of international and
sovereign law is anything other than public, (in the sense of respublica) and
that the law administers the networks rather than vice versa. Which would be
admittedly much more interesting, I suspect. It is also not to deny that networks
can in the long term create and change law, albeit in a slow and frustrating way.
As soon as the G8 countries elect network managers rather than lawyers as chief
executives rather than presidents, we can all switch. The freedoms you mention
are temporary and get closed down if not largely used in furtherance of the
perceived respublicae. Please correct me if I am wrong.
"Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
> At 07:57 AM 8/3/99 -0400, Ronda Hauben wrote:
> >And the Internet isn't "private computer networks".
>
> Prove it.
>
> This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
> civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of
> dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.
>
> Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]
