Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:52:23 -0400 From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor) Subject: Re: Canadian intelligence report on anti-globalization To: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:12:32 -0700 To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com> From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com> Subject: Re: Canadian intelligence report on anti-globalization
>From: lizard <lizard@mrlizard.com>
>To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
>
>Isn't it rather hypocritical of so-called 'anti lobalists' to use the
>Internet, surely one of the most 'globalist' technologies on the
>planet? <...>
Not hypocritical at all; quite consistent with Internet principles.
The so-called "anti-globalists" -- carefully MIS-labeled by expert propagandists -- aren't opposed to free and open interaction, worldwide, most especially where decision processes are open, and democratic, and reflect and serve the needs and desires of the communities and nations that are impacted by those decisions.
These principled activists ARE opposed to closed and secret meetings that impact global freedom and safety, meeting limited mostly or entirely to unelected and often unidentified decision-makers, who are self-selected on the basis of massive economic power and myopic conglomerate self-interests.
The WTO, World Bank, FTAA, etc., function exactly OPPOSITE to how the Internet functions. * Their membership is elite and closed; the Internet is open to all. * Their decision processes are secret; the Internet protocols and most decisions are produced via open collaboration (and there is vociferous opposition to the more recent attempts of an arrogant ICANN to operate with a self-selected majority making decisions in secret). * Their membership requires great wealth and personal and corporate power; Internet access costs almost nothing, and operating a full-access Internet server is affordable by almost any college kid with a used desktop computer. * They serve only their own, narrow, self-focused conglomerate and cartel interests; the Internet is open to serving all interests of anyone who can get to the local library or community center, or afford the price of a carton of cigarettes or a bottle of cheap wine per month.
And the Internet does all this, no matter how much those elite conglomerate interests would like to quash the net's unfettered dialogue, and rein it in so it only serves to their pull their corporate buggies, as a quiescent lapdog, obedient to the endless acquisition addiction of the self-chosen, self-serving, faceless, mega-wealthy elite who control those secret "global" organizations and their secret decision processes.
--jim Jim Warren; jwarren@well.com, technology & public policy columnist & advocate Also GovAccess founder/list-owner/editor, and DataCast founder/owner
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