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Subject:    Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Microsoft's Palladium transforms Internet from
From:       Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior ! org>
Date:       2002-06-29 23:01:11
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Is like I had to laugh when Comcast promotes their digital cable service
saying the consumer 'has never had control like this before' -- when in
reality, they have less......

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> From: Tom Albrecht <talbrech@taz.cs.wcupa.edu>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:21:39 -0400
> To: dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org
> Subject: Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Microsoft's Palladium transforms Internet from
> Wild West to suburban neighborhood
> 
> Jon O. wrote:
> 
>> Regardless of what some leftist self-appointed libertarian Internet
>> watchdogs and privacy advocates will try to say, the citizens living in the
>> nineteenth century are nowhere close to being as "free" as those fortunate
>> enough to be alive now.  These hypocrites are right about Microsoft's
>> vision of Palladium, it is a technology that wants to turn the lawless Wild
>> West into an orderly suburban neighborhood.  Gated communities much like
>> those hypocritical privacy advocates live in.
>> 
>> 
> This paragraph sums up the entire argument.  The debate is between those
> who believe the double-speak that more control means more freedom, and
> those who believe that more control means less freedom.  It's between
> those who believe that the freedom American's enjoyed 200 years ago,
> under smaller civil controls is better or worse than what we live under
> today.  it's between those who want to fix everyone's problems and those
> who just want to be left alone.
> 
> The sad part is that most people don't really want more freedom, so much
> as they want less responsibility.  They want to be able to plug their
> system into a network, and not need to worry about all the bad people
> out there touching their box.  They would be glad to trade in their
> freedom for comfort.
> 
> As someone once said... "They're not really living... they're just
> waiting to die."
> 
> Tom Albrecht III
> 
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