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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Open Response to Richard E Depew
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 17:46:48 -0500
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- In article <slrn4i24im.ss.jmaynard@k5zc.hsc.uth.tmc.edu>,
- Jay Maynard <jmaynard@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> wrote:
- >>>USENET is not a democracy.
- >>There is far from universal agreeement on this point.
- >Only among those who don't have to work to keep it running.
-
- If Usenet is not a democracy because it depends on the actions of a group
- of people who keep it running, who can ignore what the public wants and get
- away with it, then by that reasoning, all the "democracies" in the real world
- aren't democratic, after all. A real-world democracy depends on the fact that
- the people in power will listen to the results of the votes too. If all
- politicians (and law enforcers) were to gather together and decide tomorrow
- not to follow the results of votes, the result would be quite similar to
- what would happen on the net if Tale and group-advice decided to ignore the
- result of a Usenet vote.
-
- That does not mean that either real-world democracies or Usenet is not
- democratic.
- --
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, karromde@nyx.cs.du.edu;
- http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~arromdee)
-
- "An alien invader has entered our galaxy! It has now entered our universe,
- clearing Saturn... radial velocity KMS minus 8. It is now orbiting directly
- for Earth." --Bad American Dubbing #2 (quoting ???)
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