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Re: Webpage picketing?... (fwd)




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> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 16:02:02 -0700
> Subject: Re: Webpage picketing?...
> From: [email protected] (Huge Cajones Remailer)

> > You may dislike
> > one of the sites linking to yours, but you really can't hijack their
> > connections and force people to listen to you who don't want to.
> 
>   Wrong! It's done every day in every media from newspapers to TV
> and points in between, including the InterNet.

>   I have a lot of respect for Peter's work, opinions and for his
> integrity, but my perception is that he fails to understand that
> the InterNet is a growing mosaic which can and should reflect
> *all* of life, and that his perception of what the InterNet is
> and should be somehow dictates what should and should not be
> done on the InterNet.
>   I think that what should be done on the InterNet is exactly
> what people *want* to do. It is up to their own conscience as
> to whether their actions are done with integrity and up to the
> rest of us to interpret and respond to those actions.

Agreed. However, I see a situation happening akin to a sheeple goes into the
public library and checks out a book on pro-life politics and because of
excessive civil liberty protection is then required to also check out a book
on pro-abortion to make shure they are informed.

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