There's been a lot of fictional scenarios for a totalitarian police
state arising in the US, ranging from commie takeovers to right-wing
religious zealots, but I dunno if anyone (till quite recently) expected
possible violation of copyrights as the trigger.
E.g.:
Duncan Frissell on why Napster users are federal felons
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02305.html
(Estimate 55 million felons. Frissell doesnt call them cyber-terrorists
but they're computer-using felons, so imho the term fits).
Copyright wars: Cops nab 14-year old, librarians as terrorists
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02311.html
>...librarians are finding themselves the subject of rhetoric usually
>reserved for terrorists or revolutionaries. "They've got their radical
>factions, like the Ruby Ridge or Waco types," who want to share all
>content for free, said Judith Platt, a spokeswoman for the Association of
>American Publishers.
Let's not forget the entire Internet was cooked up by cyber-terrorists
to begin with:
Taming the Wild, Wild Web
Corporations contend the Internet's freewheeling design kills
moneymaking opportunities.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-072601netarch.story
> "The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant. "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive. But this is a business, not a government-sponsored network."
Ok, so he doesnt explicitly say 'cyber-terrorists' either, but in my
view any anarchist wth a computer must be a cyber-terrorist.
Actually, I would say anyone who actually has the temerity to actually
*use a computer* (as opposed to a media-conglomerate-approved device for
viewing or listening to media-conglomerate-approved content) is a
potential cyber-terrorist. The same should apply to those web users who
dare to turn javascript or images off, or refuse cookies. Hell, why not?
Surely business-minded extropians would support calls for massive
death^H^H^H^H^H re-edutainment camps to lock up these legions of wanton
cyber-terrorists.
-Mike
-- ====================================================================== Michael Wiik Principal Messagenet Communications Research Washington DC Area Internet and WWW Consultants http://messagenet.com mwiik@messagenet.com ======================================================================
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