RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Hackers defense: The computer did it

["Matt Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I agree. This is basically suggesting we give up our rights so that the
random idiot who actually does this crap from his own box can't do it
anymore, yet for what we give up, we stop maybe 1/100000 of them. The rest
just manipulate the system. Just like anything else, someone will run a
"pirate" signal, but they can use that signal to hack in and serve their
crap from the legitmate servers.

Further, your suggestion would kill email, chat, open source, public forums,
and basically every other use there ever was for the internet except for the
PBS website and advertisements.

With freedom comes responsibility. If you don't want to take responsibility,
just stop using the freedom, don't take it away from the rest of us. With
the net, that responsibility is self defence. This is like the gun control
issue. Its not guns that kill people, but people acting irresponsibly with
guns that kills people.

I'm afraid I can't make any positive comments on this suggestion, proticon,
what the hell were you thinking?

> For even thinking such filth I now must kill you. ;) Seriously though..
> the strength of the Internet is that everyone has a voice. Anything can
> be published or read and that flow of unhindered information is hard to
> stop. If the Internet has a main weakness it's that it's overly
> commercialized and government controlled already. Money and politics
> still, to a point, are hindering free speech.
>
> > I have thought for a long time now that the internet should be
> an extention of
> > radio or television.  Anyone can receive, but to transmit, you
> must have a license.


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