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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,news.misc,comp.bbs.misc,alt.amateur-comp,alt.culture.usenet
- Subject: Re: A Paper on the Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet
- Keywords: Usenet Pioneers Democracy News grass roots
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.110418.6143@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 11:04:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.055102.27053@news.columbia.edu> <2B262525.2DD7@tct.com> <t29qqv-@lynx.unm.edu>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Lines: 10
- In-Reply-To: kogoma@vesta.unm.edu (Taki Kogoma)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lusmu.cs.hut.fi
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- In article <t29qqv-@lynx.unm.edu>, kogoma@vesta (Taki Kogoma) writes:
- >You realize the problem involved in informing all these people that
- >usenet is *not* a democracy. After all, putting it in "What is
- >Usenet?" on news.announce.newusers won't satisfy some people...;-)
-
- Nope, the real problem is in informing all the people that "democracy"
- is not a synonym for any of "good", "equality", "our system",
- "desirable system", "a system where you have freedom", "us" and so on.
-
- //Jyrki
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