roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:12:21 +0500 

Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 02:12:21 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9503250712.AA10379@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Content is the cargo of truth


I like Christopher Saunders's assertion that there is no reason to 
regulate electronic communications. I think it's much healthier to 
think independently about this than to get in a pre-emptic blather 
over "inevitable" censorship. Of course it's a realistic threat that 
must be dealt with. But there's also a wimpy Panopticon effect.

     I'm prepared to put my 50-year-old pot belly in verbal harm's
way to fight the censor from no matter what direction. The word is
fight - actively oppose, aggressively assert, uncompromisingly defend,
steadfastly denounce - any and all tyrannies over the mind of cyberman,
to paraphrase an imperfect but brilliant man to whom we owe much
of the freedom we exercise right here.  [Bart made me write "pre-emptic" 
above - pre-emptive was what burbled up in the terminal swelling of my 
notocord].

Jeff "Armchair Patriot" Briggs
<jbriggs@capital.edu>

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