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[Prev|Next| Index] 2/22/96, intaglio@pobox.com, Indiana, PA USA
My dreams for the future of the internet begin with a quote that
i have memorized and repeated in my head since first i read it.
It appeared in the Scientific American sometime during my
freshman year.
Computer networking offers the soundest basis for world
peace that has yet been presented. Peace must be created on
the bulwark of understanding. International computer
networks will knit together the peoples of the world in
bonds of mutual respect; its possibilities are vast, indeed.
Having grown from a child of uncommon awareness to a sensitive,
young woman who witnessed the death throes of the Cold War
regime, these words fill me with passion and suspense of an
intensity which i cannot describe.
As I watched our government in its ignorance make of the internet
the most singularly censored medium in existence, I wondered what
would happen to the dreams of myself and certainly the author who
originally penned the above quote. no one is talking about the
almost certain implications that the attachment of such
destructive measures (here, i am talking about the CDA) will have
upon our dealings with the rest of the world. This is not the act
of a democratic nation. This is most certainly the act of an
election year congress feeling the heat of an
ever-swinging-more-right-pendulum.
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My home page went black along with the pages of countless others,
8feb1996
BLACK, the color of death, of loss, the color of void, of pain...
The death of a dream. [Image]
The loss of an ideal.
A decision made, void of thinking men.
The pain of a wound so deep, it threatens to bleed away free
expression and exchange of ideas - the lifeblood of the internet.
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No, this is not the act of a democratic (dare to dream, work for
the ideal, respect the thinking man, hold our rights and ideas
sacred) nation. What is this country coming to, then?
[24Hours of Democracy]
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