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  From: O'Connor, Steven <Steven.O'Connor@boral.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:46:37 +0930

RE: I'net Bill - What to do? What to do? - Confucius

Seconded.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert Wuttke [SMTP:robert.wuttke@disc.com.au]
> Sent:	Friday, 28 May 1999 12:00
> To:	C4IS; Linux SA
> Subject:	Re: I'net Bill - What to do? What to do? - Confucius
> 
> This sounds like a very interesting idea, and I do think some of the
> people
> on this list would make excellent vocal advocates.
> 
> A thought, why not create a political party ourselves, something like
> 
> The SA Internet Users Party - Protecting Your Right To Freely Use The
> Internet.
> 
> As part of the mandate of such party, it could hold public information
> seminars giving information to empower the average person regardless of
> internet knowledge. The seminars could be used instead of maybe club
> meetings.
> 
> Any ideas, criticism or downright telling me to shutup will be
> appreciated.
> 
> Rob.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C4IS <C4IS@EISA.NET.AU>
> To: Linux SA <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
> Date: Friday, 28 May 1999 10:22 AM
> Subject: I'net Bill - What to do? What to do? - Confucius
> 
> 
> >I wonder if anybody else has thought
> >about educating the general public
> >about the Internet (not for the purpose
> >of selling them an ISP access package,
> >but in the way that 4WD clubs help
> >their members get the best out of their
> >4-wheel-drive vehicles...):
> >
> >Something of a social context in which
> >people would intentionally endeavour
> >to create an Internet culture and pass
> >it to the "next generation" of Internet
> >newbies...
> >
> >Guiding them to useful material... if
> >only so that the wildly negative PR
> >that seems - now and again - to fill
> >media about the 'net doesn't (in the
> >absence of such social/cultural con-
> >texts) become a self-fulfilling prophesy
> >that makes it easier for people to
> >accept silly laws like the one we've
> >been discussing lately...
> >
> >I, for one, think that doing the above
> >would be giving people a new choice:
> >
> >While they'd still be able to do it alone,
> >or with cyber-associates, now they
> >would be able to meet and socialise
> >with people whose values might be
> >vastly different from the minority who
> >seem to get the air-time (e.g. pedo-
> >philes, purpetrators of 'net frauds,
> >online gambling, etc.)
> >
> >Of course, there would be various
> >clubs and not all of them would share
> >the same values (some might find
> >online gambling OK, while I would
> >not in mine...).
> >
> >But getting the more conservative
> >and/or lesser experienced computer
> >users (including some that have had
> >no contact with the computer and/or
> >Internet) into contact with the 'net via
> >one of these clubs (either on a period-
> >ic basis or even during a one-night or
> >afternoon intro "show & tell" presen-
> >tation) would ease their minds about
> >what the Internet's all about...
> >
> >Less fear... less jumping on Harradine's
> >censorship bandwagon.
> >
> >And - who knows? - it might even help
> >the economy, e.g. if some new Internet
> >User (who's been shown how to find
> >info on a new service, technique or
> >product happens to work it up into a
> >business success for him-/her-self,
> >right here in SA...).  It would surely
> >help convince the pollies, no?
> >
> >Of course, it would!
> >
> >So, as I've asked (rhetorically?) before:
> >
> >Do you want to quash this bill...?
> >
> >Or do you want to sit around sputtering
> >about how awful it is...? how unrespons-
> >ive the gov't is...? etc.
> >
> >The choice is yours...  ;)
> >
> >Let's hope you make the right choice!
> >
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