Subject: 5 cent charge for email
Friday, January 04, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: E-Mail Charge
Guess the warnings were true. Federal Bill 602P 5-cents
per
E-mail sent.
It figures! No more free E-mail! We knew this was coming!!
This is yet another internet myth.
How could anyone place a charge on the internet?
It was set up by universities to exchange information, then the US military saw
the potential for an unstoppable information exchange system, one that could not
be knocked out by the likes of September Eleven.
Relax, your country may be able to go and beat a small, poor, starving and
totally devastated country like Afghanistan into submission, but it could not
put a charge on the internet.
Nor would they ever want to do that. The US government has been
working since the early eighties to get
Allan Balliett wrote: Nor would they ever want to do that. The US government has
been working since the early eighties to get EVERYONE on the internet - snip -
the internet is an awesome tool in the hands of an oligarchy.
Thanks for the use of oligarchy, a word I did not know and made me hit a
be foreign
based; what will governments do then?
bob
- Original Message -
From: Gil Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: email charge
This is yet another internet myth.
How could anyone place a charge on the internet
Allan:
Just 2 days ago, on MSNBC,i think, i caught most of a message about some
U.S.governmental expression of intent to make ISPs responsible for
monitoring their own net-traffic for any trace of what the gov't terms
subversive commentary.
I can only imagine the debate around that definition!
