Time: Mon Mar 17 18:11:45 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22939; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:14:33 -0700 (MST) id PAA26305; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:53:03 -0500 (EST) id PAA26290; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:52:56 -0500 (EST) id AA13962; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:52:46 -0500 by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA05765 for <snetnews@world.std.com>; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:31:51 -0700 (MST) by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA26780 for <snetnews@world.std.com>; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:31:26 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:55:38 -0800 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SNET: Net censorship, access cost increase, and Intellectual Property alert! (fwd) -> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List "Netizen" is now an official member of the English language repertoire! :) Yea, team. Keep that creativity flowing! We're gonna dig out of this hole yet!! /s/ Paul Mitchell At 01:39 PM 3/17/97 -0600, you wrote: > >-> SearchNet's SNETNEWS Mailing List > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:20:16 -0700 >From: FACTNet International <factnet@rmi.net> >To: factnet@rmi.net >Subject: Net censorship, access cost increase, and Intellectual Property alert! > >Net censorship, access cost increase, and Intellectual Property alert! > >Every netizen or organization that wants low cost net access, net >free speech, and uncensored e-mail has a high stake in a court >case soon to be decided in the litigation war involving Scientology, >the Internet, and a nonprofit electronic library and historic archive >called FactNet. > >An emergency Internet and legal issues briefing has been prepared for >you and/or your organization at (www.factnet.org). Factnet's Board of >Directors urgently asks your help to promote both media coverage and >a vigorous dialogue among netizens on the immediate and substantial >threat this briefing discloses to the future of the Internet. > >To help understand the importance of this briefing to Internet costs, >Internet slowdowns, Internet intellectual property and Internet free >speech please find the following media quotes. > >"If the church's (Scientology's) lawsuits prevail...future providers >of bulletin boards and newsgroups on the World Wide Web, as well as >the companies running such subscriber services as Prodigy, Compuserve, >and America Online might be forced to monitor or restrict information >simply because they fear being sued...If system operators are liable for >the content of the postings, it will lead to censorship...It would change >the whole idea of how the Internet develops -- it's that important." >--Shari Steele, attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as >quoted in "The Net: Copyright or 'Free Press'?" Newsday, 10/10/95 > >"Besides the technological curtailment of free speech, a skirmish like >this one has the potential to completely disrupt the online operation not >only of individual users, but also of entire networks overloaded by >traffic their circuits were never designed to handle." >--Colman Jones, "Freedom Flames Out on the 'Net: Who Launched the >largest-ever Sabotage of the Internet?" >www.now.com/issues/15/44/News/feature.html > >"Other [Internet] users have reported mysterious incidents: investigators > visiting their neighbors, strangers attempting to get into their telephone >records, e-mail sent to their sysadmins asking that their accounts be >closed down. How did we get to this, in a free country?... > >"It turns out that a belief in free speech and an interest in >Scientology may involve you in the bitterest battle fought across >the Internet to date. A fight that has burst the banks of the Net >and into the real world of police,lawyers, and armed search and >seizure. Ultimately, however, the drama doesn't matter: the real >issues here are the boundaries of free speech and the future of >copyright and intellectual property in the face of a >technology that can scatter copies across the world in seconds... >"Whatever the motives, when computers are seized because they >contain allegedly purloined intellectual property, messages are >intercepted as they traverse the network, or the security of anonymous >remailers is pierced by police, the days of the Internet as a cozy, >private, intellectual cocktail party are over. .." >--Wendy M. Grossman, "alt.scientology.war," Wired, 8/95 > >Lest anyone doubt Scientology's intentions, an article in the most >recent issue of an internal Scientology magazine called "High Winds" >proudly trumpets "groundbreaking lawsuits against both copyright >infringers and the computer service companies that served as >electronic conduits" for them. It goes on to predict "landmark >decisions" in which, "for the first time, Internet access providers >will be held responsible for any copyright infringements posted >through their facilities." > >"The Internet is an information age tool that empowers individuals and >reduces the need for a large, authoritarian government. It empowers the >poor with an unregulated world of entrepreneurial opportunity... >Information and the new frontier could create a more fair, peaceful >society The free flow of information is central to America's foundation, >and '90s technology only enhances it. Unfortunately, it's all big threat >to those in power who rely on the control of information to secure >their lofty positions. No matter what they call it, free speech is the >issue." --Wayne Langsen, "Raiding Free Speech," Boulder Weekly editorial. > 8/24/95 > >PLEASE help protect our mutual Internet freedoms by appropriately >forwarding this briefing to your personal or organizational network >of individuals, newsgroups, listservs, net media, and net watch >organizations where it hasn't appeared yet. > >Your timely attention to this critical briefing is appreciated, > >The Directors of Factnet >Boulder Colorado USA > >P.S. Factnet has been reconstructing its electronic files since they >were sabotaged and returned to us by court order after the Scientology >raid. Our original mailing lists consisted of individuals and organizations >who had viewed materials or had an interest in Scientology's Internet >abuses and other human rights abuses. Because of the raid we are not >fully certain that our reconstructed mailing lists contain what they >originally contained or have been reassembled back into the proper lists. >These reconstructed mailing lists are far to important to the battle for >Internet free speech not to begin using again just because they were in >Scientology's possession. > >If you have received this alert and you have not previously reviewed or >been interested in any information on these issues let us know and we >will immediately correct the situation. We ask your understanding if >there has been an error or duplicate mailing. Try to imagine someone >illegally seizing all of your computers and computer files then searching >and altering and destroying parts of them. Finally you get it all back >to you in boxes and pieces. That's what happened to Factnet. Over the >last 12 months with minimal resources it has had to reconstruct 6 >gigabits of its deliberately disordered returned libraries and files. > >-- >tonys@the-truth.org >OKC bombing info - >http://www.future.net/~thetruth/okc.html > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com >-> Posted by: tfs@adc.com (Tony F Sgarlatti) > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ======================================================================== -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com -> Posted by: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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