e-censorship

alec ramsdell a_ramsdell at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 4 11:48:25 PDT 1998


I'm posting this again. If anyone reads "Kinko's SF Computer Sabotage, Authorities Baffled" in the news, well, they had it comin'.

SurfWatch is a device whereby unfit material (pornography) is kept from Kinko's internet access.


>On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Michael Eisenscher wrote:
>
>> Workers can understand Marxist concepts, but not if they are
presented as
>> you do here. I have never heard "rentier classes," "bourgeois
society,"
>> "value theory," "proletariat," "fetishistic expression," "surplus
labor
>> time," or "necessary labor time" roll off the tongues of workers with
whom I
>> have dealt over the course of more than 30 years of union work
>
>Well, translated into 1990s terms, you could reel off the
afore-mentioned
>Marxian categories as "Wall Street greedheads", "corporations",
"critical
>thinking", "ordinary working people", "false problems", "Nike's greed"
and
>"whatever your job is, you deserve fair compensation". There remains
the
>small problem of "the revolution". How about "Massive, Sudden Global
>Grooviness"? To the Linux-barricades, comrades!
>
>-- Dennis

That's pretty "Extreme", don't you think, Dennis?

-Alec

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