[Dialogue] Save the Internet

[george]

Perhaps you are right, however I have noticed that small people, of  
which I am one, can act very immorally in mobs, something they would  
not do on their own, and that in 1884 a Federal District judge in the  
U.S. made corporations individuals in law.  Also, there appears to me  
to be evil conveyed in and through institutions, e.g. the institution  
of slavery, which speaking ethically, goes far beyond what a small  
person can contribute and the practices, images, understandings can  
be perpetuated far beyond that small person for generations.  The  
right wing religious in the U.S. have tried to put the whole of  
morality on individual responsibility, which is aptly applied in  
specific instances, but they readily ignore these principles as a  
group when it comes to issues of poverty and the distribution of  
wealth and taxes.

Having attempted to work through the political process at the state  
level, it occurs to me that all the people I meet are good and decent  
folks as people, but when vote time comes their decisions are made on  
the basis of corporate interests, which they even admit sometimes in  
private not the best thing to do.

–george


On Apr 29, 2006, at 4:55 PM, John Epps wrote:

> George:
>
> The villains aren't large companies, but small people.
>
> At 07:17 AM 4/28/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>> The following article highlights an upcoming threat to our  
>> communication abilities and the first in a series of moves by the  
>> large companies to use congress to control the flow of information  
>> and make much more money off the internet.  We've had extensive  
>> battles in the Texas legislature to prevent the major telecom and  
>> cable companies from inserting laws on the books forbidding cities  
>> from putting up wireless networks, which have become necessary for  
>> small towns to retain their assembly plants and warehouses, since  
>> the majors won't serve them.
>> –george holcombe
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