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From: skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The public's network of the future
Message-ID: <9090001@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 88 06:25:35 GMT
References: <255@ultb.UUCP>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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Informed speculation?  Just a guess.  The nature of USENET/uucp is that
it's distributed.  You'd have a much bigger problem if all the notesgroups
were only carried by some large computer in Washington, and you had to dialup
to read them.  The other extreme is isolated bbs's, any of which can
carry whatever they want, provided other freedoms hold.  Now, what if all
the bbs's were networked, and any of them could swap data with the others
in an organized timely manner?  It's still possible to censor, but getting
harder...

Rich Skrenta