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- Subject: Agony and Anarchy (WAS: Creation of alt.magic.secrets)
- Date: 30 May 1995 22:01:34 GMT
- Organization: Club BOB(c)
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- Sleight of Hans (MASING@IC.NET) spake unto us, saying:
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- : Mr. Becker seems to forget the basis of internet: It is an anarchy.
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- Tsk, tsk. If you really think about it a little more deeply, rather than
- simply accepting what you've been told or what you would like to believe
- in your fiction-saturated mind, you'd see that the Internet is most
- certainly not an anarchy.
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- Internet society is feudal.
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- Think carefully about it. Can I do whatever I please on the Internet?
- Not really. Why? I have sysadmins at NCSU who decide what I can and cannot
- do. If I cross their lines, then they can remove my account quite easily.
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- Every domain is essentially a barony, and the sysadmins are the barons.
- It's quite a simple concept, really, and it makes much more sense than
- this anarchy foolishness we've heard for so long. Anyone can have a
- barony, you say? Not really. You have to have money, and you depend on
- the cooperation of someone else to get a connection.
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- It's all about power, ladies and gents. The Internet is not a society of
- essentially equal users, people who can do no more than the information
- that they have available to them. The Internet is essentially run by the
- lords of each domain. If they say "goodbye", it's goodbye.
-
- You can always run to another baron, but you're still bound by his laws
- and rules, some of which are far more stringent than the "kingdoms"
- (read: countries) in which they reside.
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- Face it, folks. The Internet has people in charge, whether you want to
- admit it or not. The next time you think this place is an anarchy, try
- mailbombing root@yoursite.com and see what happens.
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- The BOB(c)
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- yet he's Bounded by a Nutshell known as USENET." -- Louis Nick III
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