At 10:04 AM -0700 7/14/00, Patrick Henry forwarded:
> July 14, 2000
> Tech Center
> EarthLink Says It Refuses to Install FBI's Carnivore Surveillance Device
> By NICK WINGFIELD, TED BRIDIS and NEIL KING JR.
> Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
> One of the nation's largest Internet-service providers, EarthLink Inc., has
> refused to install a new Federal Bureau of Investigation electronic
>surveillance
> device on its network, saying technical adjustments required to use the
>device
> caused disruptions for customers...
Read the last sentence, again boys and girls. Politics has nothing to do
with this. At the very most, it's orthogonal. Earthlink isn't doing
*anything* for political reasons, any more than science does things for
religeous reasons.
To beat Mr. Gilmore's horse a little more, "A geodesic economy sees
surviellance as loss of profit, and will route around it."
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
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