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From: bzs@pinocchio.encore.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: The public's network of the future
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Date: 20 Dec 88 17:58:57 GMT
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What gloom and doomers usually fail to address is the fact that USENET
is an anarchy. There's no organization, office, address, person,
corporation, nothing to go and complain to or pressure. That's the
beauty of it.

Now sure, individual companies (or whatever) can drop certain groups
due to pressure, they've been doing that all along and it doesn't seem
to much affect the general free-wheeling nature.

The person or persons who take a stab at USENET are going to have to
dabble in some really evil ideas to censor it, it won't yield to
traditional attacks on the central organization cuz there ain't one.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||