Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10

Luigi Genoni
2001-10-23T00:10:55Z

Ohh, our prime minister declared USA the main defensor of liberty.
Of course he was thinking also to this law. You know he has three
television, a couple of newspapers and so on...
His natural attitude brings him to agree in every case with USA
government. He is a good vendor. Apart of this. In Italy we are making a
lot of pressure against a stupid law about copyrights, but
when the prime minister is the owner of the biggest television and most
important newspapers, and when the statal television and newspaper are
a little assentive with the government (oh... just a little),
we are under censure. And anyway we publish articles and public mails
about that, we open web sites. We try to inform, and belive me, italians
are not so interested is a soccer team is not involved.

USA citizens should have less dificoulties to do something similar,
but I am not informed of a real effort from them.

Luigi

p.s.
of course, please, tell me I am wrong

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, D. Stimits wrote:

>
> NO! US citizens should provide the most pressure, but thinking that
> nations which the USA trades with and is partners with have no influence
> is plain wrong. To state only citizens of USA can help means that you
> truly believe the USA is an island untouched by the world around it. You
> can't fight this from jail, but you don't have to be a USA citizen to
> bring to light the shear stupidity of some US law. Sometimes a foreign
> country has more influence in shouting about the wrong doings than do US
> citizens...the political point of information input is different, all
> angles are required. You don't have to be responsible for a problem in
> order to be able to help solve it.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com
>
> >
> > Why are you asking Alan to risk prison _and_ pressure
> > US politicians? That's something you, as a resident
> > of the USA, should be doing yourself.
> >
> > Rik
> > --
> > DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed)
> >
> > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/
> >
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