Re: Giving Kill Files a Workout...

["George A. Stathis" <hyperlex@hol.gr>]

At 03:52 �� 16/11/1996 -1000, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
>A member of the international press who is traveling with
>President Clinton during his vacation here asked me earlier
>today, "How's the Internet doing, got a story for me?"  I think
>I may suggest the issues being discussed here.  Perhaps non-
>governmental-censorship matters have not received enough
>attention in the mass-media yet.

Quite true, and the same thing I was told by the Chief-Editor
of "Info" (the weekly Internet-supplement of a prominent Greek
journal -Eleftherotypia).

One last comment is important here:

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If the 'neo-liberal' ideology of EVERYTHING becoming 'privatised'
succeeds, then non-governmental censorship is MUCH more important
the governmental censorship.
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The Internet is a threat to the 'traditional' role of the media,
and 'list-owners' try tp behave like patronising conventional
newspaper-editors. All the filth that was hidden in the closet
of the journalistic profession comes out, as a result, in the
Net. These people want to _model_ mailing lists after journals
-ironically at a time when many journalists are free to write
what they like sometimes against the opinions of the journal-owners.

Perhaps our only hope is that... Freedom sells.

George