Many of you have brought up the need to pool resourses and amass bodies to prevent corprate takeover of free (as of now) resourses. I am sure there are numerous groups for such actions, but a novel starting point in the defense of freedom has been created in the wake of the etoy/Etoys struggle. Although still caught up in trying to get NSI to get etoy.com up and running again, the toywar site is fast becoming a zone for similar net actions against other enimies (the MPAA being one). The Toywar creaters and users see this site as a new approach to political activism on the net. If you are intersested in becoming an agent in the toywar go to www.toywar.com and find me (death) in the long list of agents or send me your credentials at deathblink@hotmail.com There are tools we have yet to imagine; there are enimies we have yet to know. BE PREPARED! CARRY A toy.BOMB.
I think you are _very_ niave in thinking merely getting people on the net will raise their awareness about the struggle between freedom and control that is the primary focus of this discussion. There is a great devide between the average user (who thinks about how much time they can save on their shopping trips) and the educated user (often in the buisness of understanding computers). I, myself am a new user. "Now", you say,"but your on slashdot!" Yes, but only because all of my friends are geeks. They have impressed upon me the importance of this stuff. I don't care how many hours you gave me alone in front of the computer, I never would have found slashdot, nor the ideas it stands for. The point? Education on a mass scale. All those people _already_ using computers need access to the spaces that discuss these issues dayly. And by access, I do not mean the ability of their computers to find a particular site. By access, I mean the knowledge that such things exist and are important, not just to the programmers, the geeks and the mega-corperations, but to them.
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Many of you have brought up the need to pool resourses and amass bodies to prevent corprate takeover of free (as of now) resourses. I am sure there are numerous groups for such actions, but a novel starting point in the defense of freedom has been created in the wake of the etoy/Etoys struggle. Although still caught up in trying to get NSI to get etoy.com up and running again, the toywar site is fast becoming a zone for similar net actions against other enimies (the MPAA being one). The Toywar creaters and users see this site as a new approach to political activism on the net. If you are intersested in becoming an agent in the toywar go to www.toywar.com and find me (death) in the long list of agents or send me your credentials at deathblink@hotmail.com There are tools we have yet to imagine; there are enimies we have yet to know. BE PREPARED! CARRY A toy.BOMB.
I think you are _very_ niave in thinking merely getting people on the net will raise their awareness about the struggle between freedom and control that is the primary focus of this discussion. There is a great devide between the average user (who thinks about how much time they can save on their shopping trips) and the educated user (often in the buisness of understanding computers). I, myself am a new user. "Now", you say,"but your on slashdot!" Yes, but only because all of my friends are geeks. They have impressed upon me the importance of this stuff. I don't care how many hours you gave me alone in front of the computer, I never would have found slashdot, nor the ideas it stands for. The point? Education on a mass scale. All those people _already_ using computers need access to the spaces that discuss these issues dayly. And by access, I do not mean the ability of their computers to find a particular site. By access, I mean the knowledge that such things exist and are important, not just to the programmers, the geeks and the mega-corperations, but to them.