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[blue ribbon] | Prev | Next | Home | 24 Hours of Democracy in Cyberspace
The net is not American. It is global.
[ariga's logo]
Robert Rosenberg
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Although it's self-evident that the US constitutional
courts will strike down those clauses in the CDA that
threaten freedom of speech, it's also self-evident that
the legislators -- and the president who signed the bill
into power -- are dangerously ignorant about the very
thing they are trying to regulate with their
"deregulation."
A reminder: The 'net was designed to survive nuclear
holocaust, built to be a perpetual motion machine that
can never be shut down, and conceived with the need for a
method of communication that can not be censored, lest it
fail to fulfill its original purpose -- make sure that in
case of a nuclear war, the missiles will still fly.
Luckily, thankfully, perhaps divinically, the 'net
evolved from that key tool of the Mutually Assured
Destruction policies of the 60s, 70s and 80s, to become
the platform for the free marketplace of ideas in which
the next century's global economy will be built. As such,
it is our guarantee that knoweldge will indeed be
victorious over superstition, and that the essential
pragmatism of ther Golden Rule will indeed replace
tribalist fundamentalism and racial superiority theories,
so that that democracy will continue to spread across the
planet.
The net is not American. It is global. It helped bring
down the Soviet Union by making it possible for those
connected to know even before Mikhail Gorbachev that
there was a nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
As an expatriate American, I can only mourn the ignorance
of its current political leadership, and hold onto the
hope that the net's usefulness as a tool for the
dissemination of knowledge, will prove to be the greatest
weapon in the battle for global democracy -- and peace.
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[24 hours of free speech on the internet logo] Twenty-Four
Hours of
Democracy on the Net:
This was a mystical experience for many who took
part in "Coool" Dave Winer's proposed chain of essays by
netizens who wanted to express their feelings, thoughts
and experiences about the inalienable right of all
netizens to Free Speech.
The following article was Ariga's contribution to
the event that took place for 24 hours in cyberspace
through the spontaneous creation of a chain of links, a
web of webs, and lists of listservs, protesting against
the political ignorance attempting to censor the net,
affirming the right to free speech for all.
Ariga will be continuing the chain if you want to
contribute. Send your article to Ariga to join the chain.
Here's a list of many, if not all the sites known to be
linked as of Feb 24.
Posted at Ariga on Feb 21 1996
To Cyberspace Nation at Ariga
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