[Air-l] Distrust the government

[Quentin (Gad) Jones]

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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