From the "pissing up a rope" file...
--- begin forwarded text Priority: normal Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:36:05 MET Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> Sender: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Stephan Bleisteiner <SBLEISTEINER@JURA.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Organization: Uni Wuerzburg - Jur. Fak. Subject: NBC Europe Question of the week Comments: To: FIGHT-CENSORSHIP@vorlon.mit.edu To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM I thought some people on the list might feel very strongly about this issue and would like to cast their vote. The NBC Interactive Question of the Week: Should there be one international group that governs and controls web content? YES NO To cast your vote go to http://www.nbceurope.com Stephan --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA Lesley Stahl: "You mean *anyone* can set up a web site and compete with the New York Times?" Andrew Kantor: "Yes." Stahl: "Isn't that dangerous?" The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/
On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
I thought some people on the list might feel very strongly about this issue and would like to cast their vote.
The NBC Interactive Question of the Week:
Should there be one international group that governs and controls web content?
Results pasted in from http://www.nbceurope.com/ Now, here are the results from last week's question which asked.... Should there be one international group that governs and controls web content? 85% said no... while 15% said yes. Interesting that the "sheeple factor" was as high as 15%. (Or was it higher? Did 20 cypherpunks submit "no" 100 times each?) This poll was accurate within 100%, 19 times out of 20 ;-) , but it will still serve as fodder for someone's News Breaking Story. At the very least they could have implemented a "have-you-voted-yet" cookie to weed out the technologically impaired who might want to vote twice. Cynthia
Cynthia H. Brown wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:
I thought some people on the list might feel very strongly about this issue and would like to cast their vote. The NBC Interactive Question of the Week: Should there be one international group that governs and controls web content?
Results pasted in from http://www.nbceurope.com/ 85% said no... while 15% said yes.
Interesting that the "sheeple factor" was as high as 15%. (Or was it higher? Did 20 cypherpunks submit "no" 100 times each?) At the very least they could have implemented a "have-you-voted-yet" cookie to weed out the technologically impaired who might want to vote twice.
Is Cynthia H. Brown pissing up a rope? Toto said yes, 85 times. Cynthia said no, 15 times. Not that I'm a troublemaker... -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html
On Tue, 08 Apr 1997, Alec wrote:
At 08:05 PM 4/7/97 -0600, Toto wrote:
|> Results pasted in from http://www.nbceurope.com/ |> 85% said no... |> while 15% said yes.
| Is Cynthia H. Brown pissing up a rope?
Unfortunately I don't have enough port in the house to accomplish that feat. (Plus, I'm lacking the equipment to aim properly :-))
| Toto said yes, 85 times. | Cynthia said no, 15 times.
And subsequently: <thud> <sound of sirens> Your Honour, I was just defending myself...
| Not that I'm a troublemaker...
That's not what I'd call you.
Sounds like a typical Toto evening out with a lady.
Cynthia
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