Sender: "Bryan A. Alexander" <•••@••.•••> Karl's lines about "If you can't stand the marketing, get out of the marketplace" ends up making the post to which he was responding much more frightening than it already was: in an age where trans- or meta-national corporations are extending their reach in an ambitious variety of ways, it's getting harder to get out of this marketplace. Karl's later suggestion for relying on freenets is one I support; such groups are readily in opposition to megacorporations. Perhaps a careful watching of the FRONTLINE episode will reveal a greater development of this tension. Bryan Alexander Department of English University of Michigan ********************** @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Sender: •••@••.••• In a message dated 95-10-26 19:14:00 EDT, you write: >This upcoming program reveals a facet to the information highway >that sounds Orwellian -- subscribers to Prodigy, AOL, etc. are >having their "every move" recorded. The reason? To better sell >to you Indeed. Better provide services and goods to you, or to watch for any expression of your first amendment rights? It was true that AOL cooperated with the FBI earlier this year (albiet for a good cause, but do you think the feds stopped at just child porn?) And now they are tracking every move by every member. Just think, every move I make, every word I type, every file I download, *EVERYTHING* I do is being monitored. First its the credit card companies, next its Federal officers watching to see if I say anything negative about the sad state of affairs in American Government. If I could, I would leave this country. I may not be able to access the internet from Siberia, but at least everything I do in the privacy of my own dacha couldn't be monitored. Shit even the KGB had to stop somewhere. Can anyone help me find an ISP in America that ISN'T a total sellout? OLManiac Censornati, Ohio ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) You are encouraged to forward and cross-post messages for non-commercial use, pursuant to any redistribution restrictions included in individual messages. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
