Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site pesnta.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaero!pesnta!earlw From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.unix-wizards,net.usenix,net.unix Subject: Re: Government interferes with USENET? Message-ID: <2598@pesnta.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 13:48:11 EST Article-I.D.: pesnta.2598 Posted: Mon Nov 5 13:48:11 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Nov-84 22:12:44 EST References: <5117@duke.UUCP> Reply-To: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace) Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Santa Clara, Calif. Lines: 28 Summary: How could the Government interfere with USENET? This is a free Nation and "We the People" control the Government...... right? I guess writing about the internals of a Computer is restricted information and could cause death and destruction to all mankind? Maybe the Government should encourage communications between people instead of putting up barriers all the time. Would the U.S. be were it is today if only the "top-secret" cleared scientists were able to exchange information on advanced topics and the rest of us "uncleared" personnel could only talk about new ways of preparing meatloaf salads? All I can thing of now is the phrase "divide and conquer". Divide the People by preventing them from communicating to each other, then pass laws that are very complex and require a group effort to understand, then the Nation is yours to command. Next step is to make it illegal to transmit any computer information over a phone line without a special "export" license since its so easy to dial up a site outside the U.S. and "dump" all those secrets... maintain some sort of technoligical lead in the World. Or we can continue to shut down comm-paths until each person is only allowed to talk to one other person. We can have word-of-mouth communication and soon we will be eating out of stone bowls and hunting for food with our bare hands. -- Earl Wallace UUCP: ..!{ihnp4, ucbvax!hplabs, ucbvax!twg}!pesnta!earlw PHONE: (408) 727-5540 x230 USMAIL: Perkin-Elmer Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. 95054