Re: Flaming, Spam and Gate Crashing

> PS- Your statement that: "'arguments' like the ones above in favor of
> allowing the government to control the net are the best the other side
> can offer..." is fairly telling. There was no implication that I was
> espousing govt control (my position is the opposite).

It seemed that you were. I'm happy to hear otherwise, although you can expect that even the most ardent supporters of government control of the net wouldn't admit that they are in favor of censorship and so on.

> And what is this
> "other side"? The issue of govt control is remarkably bi-partisan (or
> multi-partisan). People always find a way to support govt control if it
> promotes a cause they're interested in. E.g. The Left = Govt support of
> "questionable" art. The Right = Govt control of media content. If life
> was always a simple as their "side' and our "side"...

I wasn't walking about any particular party as being "the other side". Both parties have heroes and villains in this fight. The "other side" consists of people who want to regulate, censor, and restrict the net, and there are strong proponents and opponents of that on both sides of the traditional right/left divide.

--Brian

Brian K. Yoder
<byoder[_at_]netcom.com> Received on Sat Oct 28 1995 - 19:10:52 GMT