Freedom and security

[Duncan Frissell]

At 07:38 PM 4/30/96 -0700, CyberAngels Director : Colin Gabriel Hatcher wrote:
>

>Maybe you feel like a veterano and can afford to look condesendingly at all
>the thousands of fresh-faced netizens just arriving online and say "well if
>they can't take the heat they should stay out of the fire" - but if we are
>to call ourselves an emerging "community" then we must take responsibility
>for our city, and that means caring about other people's problems.
>
>The internet is not just a collection of bits and bytes - it's real people
>doing real things to each other.
>
>When your address is forged and you get flamed and bombed, or if you start
>receiving anonymous death threats, your freedom is under threat.  It's not
>enough to say "Well I just turn off my monitor"

If these millions of the "Great Unwashed" managed to get *on* the Net in the
first place without Fascist assistance, they can figure out how to survive
there without Fascist assistance.  

DCF