RE: HateWatch Press Release: Activism vs Hacktivism

["Lownie, James" <James.Lownie@au.unisys.com>]

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> From: Caine Soma [mailto:caine@4zzzfm.org.au]
> 
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Parsifal wrote:
> 
> > No it isn't.
> > A campaign poster is showed in public places : streets.
> > A web site is a private property.
> > To replace its home page, you have to break into this 
> digital property, 
> > like a burglar.
> 
>        What, and the established law enforcement agencies 
> don't do this
> already?  A web page has exactly the same function as a street poster.
> And as the web is supposed to be a "public domain", then there is no
> crime.  

When did a web page become public domain?  It's private property as much as
anything is.

> > If you agree with this breaking, you must agree with the 
> FBI when they 
> > ask for the right to break into your house and have a look at your 
> > computer when you are away.....
> 
>        You don't store your valuables, life savings, diary or a lot of
> incriminating evidence on your computer, do you?  

Valuables, yes, diary, yes, incriminating evidence, yes.

> Breaking 
> into a solid
> physical structure is, I think, quite different from altering 
> digitally
> stored information which is simply intellectual property.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Let's be coherent ....
> > 
> > Freedom of speech and inviolability of private property are two 
> > fundamental values which can not be reserved to a few ones, 
> or to those 
> > you think to be worthy of them.
> 
>        With every right, there must be a responsibility.  If 
> you choose to
> exercise your freedom of speech, then you have to expect that 
> someone out
> there is going to disagree (quite vehemently) with something 
> that you come
> out with.  

That's fine.  And they're quite welcome to put up their own web page
espousing their own ideas, the same as I did.

James

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