[Air-l] Distrust the government
Quentin (Gad) Jones
quentin.jones at njit.edu
Tue Dec 7 10:25:04 PST 2004
The reality is that it was just bad research that had some luck getting
funded. 95% of IRC discourse happens in back channels, dyadic
interactions, which is not public and is not being analyzed by the
research outlined by this grant.
Derek McMillan wrote:
>Sci Fi writer Frank Herbert described democracy as a system in which the
>people distrust the government. I think the surveillance of chatrooms is not
>so much a hunt for terrorists as a hunt for people expressing the "wrong"
>opinions. In a democracy they would expect to be able to do that without
>government snoopers taking an interest......perhaps they would be wrong.
>The attack on Indymedia in the UK is a clear indication of a clampdown on
>freedom of speech on a number of fronts.
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>Which is a shame.
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