In light of the White House getting on the net, how effective do you all think an electronic petition, about the BigBrotherChip, would be? Do you think that they would listen? Do you think that, perhapse, we would simply be put on a list of "trouble makers?" I was thinking of writting a petition and distributing it in every way I can think of, and encouraging people to send it to the White House. Any comments? +-----------------------+-----------------------------+---------+ | J. Michael Diehl ;-) | I thought I was wrong once. | PGP KEY | | mdiehl@triton.unm.edu | But, I was mistaken. |available| | mike.diehl@fido.org | | Ask Me! | | (505) 299-2282 +-----------------------------+---------+ | | +------"I'm just looking for the opportunity to be -------------+ | Politically Incorrect!" <Me> | +-----If codes are outlawed, only criminals wil have codes.-----+ +----Is Big Brother in your phone? If you don't know, ask me---+
In light of the White House getting on the net, how effective do you all think an electronic petition, about the BigBrotherChip, would be?
It appears that they are going to count responses and make totals pro and con any particular issue that people write about. Thus while the particulars of the petition don't really matter, the basic statements against restrictions on encryption technology do. I also heard no mention that they were going to do any kind of sorting by person or email address. Thus it appears that you get to vote early and often in this public opinion poll. Heh, heh, heh. Eric
It appears that they are going to count responses and make totals pro and con any particular issue that people write about. Thus while the particulars of the petition don't really matter, the basic statements against restrictions on encryption technology do.
I also heard no mention that they were going to do any kind of sorting by person or email address. Thus it appears that you get to vote early and often in this public opinion poll.
Do you think they'd TELL you that they were putting people on lists? Not OUR government.... +-----------------------+-----------------------------+---------+ | J. Michael Diehl ;-) | I thought I was wrong once. | PGP KEY | | mdiehl@triton.unm.edu | But, I was mistaken. |available| | mike.diehl@fido.org | | Ask Me! | | (505) 299-2282 +-----------------------------+---------+ | | +------"I'm just looking for the opportunity to be -------------+ | Politically Incorrect!" <Me> | +-----If codes are outlawed, only criminals wil have codes.-----+ +----Is Big Brother in your phone? If you don't know, ask me---+
On Tue, 1 Jun 1993, J. Michael Diehl wrote:
In light of the White House getting on the net, how effective do you all think an electronic petition, about the BigBrotherChip, would be? Do you think that they would listen? Do you think that, perhapse, we would simply be put on a list of "trouble makers?" I was thinking of writting a petition and distributing it in every way I can think of, and encouraging people to send it to the White House. Any comments?
A good idea, but it appears from the announcement that they are just going to create a database of return addresses and subject lines and sit around and read that instead of reading the actual messages. In that case I would suggest a well written form letter that we could encourage people to forward to the address with their names on it. That way after they see the same subject line 12,000 times they might get the slight urge to read the message going along with it. That would be kind of equivalent to a petition. Somebody good at slicking politicos like to draft a nice letter? -Ryan the Bit Wallah
A good idea, but it appears from the announcement that they are just going to create a database of return addresses and subject lines and sit around and read that instead of reading the actual messages.
In that case I would suggest a well written form letter that we could encourage people to forward to the address with their names on it. That way after they see the same subject line 12,000 times they might get the slight urge to read the message going along with it. That would be kind of equivalent to a petition.
YES! I may have been unclear in my presentation, but this is what I had in mind! Comments?
Somebody good at slicking politicos like to draft a nice letter?
+-----------------------+-----------------------------+---------+ | J. Michael Diehl ;-) | I thought I was wrong once. | PGP KEY | | mdiehl@triton.unm.edu | But, I was mistaken. |available| | mike.diehl@fido.org | | Ask Me! | | (505) 299-2282 +-----------------------------+---------+ | | +------"I'm just looking for the opportunity to be -------------+ | Politically Incorrect!" <Me> | +-----If codes are outlawed, only criminals wil have codes.-----+ +----Is Big Brother in your phone? If you don't know, ask me---+
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