[Dialogue] Save the Internet

[Janice Ulangca]

Well said, George!   Our institutions do need attention - some to be changed in the interest of shalom justice - and some, like the internet,  to be guarded from harmful change.  It was the Ecumenical Institute that first got me to look at the structures of society and the effect they have, for good or ill, on the small people.
Janice Ulangca
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  From: george 
  To: Colleague Dialogue 
  Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Save the Internet


  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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