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From: "Enok Kippersund" <enkipper-AT-sn.no>
Subject: Re: Fw: save the australian internet
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 20:54:03 +0100


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Thanks Don for your reply and comment!

Radhika! What do you want us, your faitful servants, to bring into focus?

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> From: don walter <dwalter-AT-ucla.edu>
> To: seminar-13-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fw: save the australian internet
> Date: 28. mars 1997 20:36
> 
> >
> >> On March 25, 1997, the Australian Parliament passed legislation that
> >> threatens to shut down the Internet in Australia.
> 
> Yes, but what can a Yank (or a Norwegian) do to persuade the Australian
> parliament that this isn't nice of them? 

May be we are doing something when we collect tis information to nourish
our dialogue, discussing the future and the visions. People trying to know
something do a lot.....  8-)
 
> I have no idea how long untimed Net access will survive in the U.S. or
> elsewhere (since it has similar foes everywhere); preserving it will
require
> political action in each country, which may or may not prevail in any
> specific country.  And then there is the point made one of our posters,
that
> the Net is an organ of economic oppression, since many countries are too
> poor to have any at all (a biostatistician visiting UCLA made the point
that
> his country, Sri Lanka, has none), and many humans are too poor to own
> computers, telephones and programs to Net with.

Why do we not discuss this situation as eagerly as the Net gossip?  ;-)

> I think that all any of us can do, is set by very local opportunities

What could be the local opportunities?

> and
> situations; we'll just have to wait and see, and then try to do what we
> can-- as with so many social processes...




   

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