> Why don't you put your money where your keyboard is and
> cancel your ISP account and smash your computer? How can
> the technology be "used for good" when it depends on global
> capitalist corporations to work?
This paragraph is priceless. You have taken my argument that technology isn't neutral and that we should be critical of technology and turned it into an insult about my personal life.
Let's see if I can turn this around for you.
Pretend that I'm an average American and I read an email from "budge" arguing why we need socialism or communism or some form of socialized medicine.
How about if I responded to your arguments, not by addressing them, by suggesting that you "move to China" or "drop out of our capitalist system and join some commie commune."
Perhaps you were being sarcastic, but your moralistic reply could just as easy be applied to you.
Chuck0