<nettime> CYBER BOYCOTT OF 2001

[Wolfgang Staehle <wolfgangsta@thing.net>]

CYBER BOYCOTT OF 2001:
DONīT CONNECT WHERE YOUīRE NOT FREE!


ECONOMIC POWER IS POLITICAL POWER!

In the 1930īs Harlem Boycott, the community leveraged economic power with
the policy "donīt shop where you canīt work." Web users today can leverage
their economic power by following the mandate "donīt connect where youīre
not free." If youīre an activist and you are still paying for internet
service to the very corporations who seek to silence you, itīs time you
cancel your account and sign up with more freedom and culture friendly
ISPs like thing.net, Panix.com, Escape.com if youīre in New York, or
others in your area. Thing.net serves the entire US, and Canada. Thing.net
users can reach Name.Space domains. By switching your DNS to Name.Space,
you are "routing around" the censorship of new domains (i.e. ".sucks") and
taking control of the way you choose to access or publish content over the
net. By registering a name using the new domain extensions with Name.Space
you are also becoming a part of the struggle to preserve Free Speech and
access in an increasingly hostile climate of censorship and content
control by corporate interests who use threat of litigation to chill
dissent and critique in the name of defending their intellectual property
rights. Your registration money will go toward continuing the fight
keeping the net free from corporate rule, and to protect individualsī
rights to access, freedom of expression, and privacy.
http://namespace.org/switch

Anyone who currently has a domain name registered with Network Solutions,
can renew it at a lower rate by transferring it from NSI, who sells their
database to marketers and anyone else who pays, to Name.Space, who keeps
your data private (unless you ask otherwise). http://movemy.com/


Join ReClaimThe.Net at FUN on May 1, 2001
from 8pm to 11 pm
to kick off the
Cyber.Boycott of 2001

video.music.words.fun

Admission: FREE!
(cash bar)

Where:
FUN
130 Madison Street, Manhattan
(under the Manhattan Bridge)
[look for the words "under the
blue awning" on a blue awning]


For more information, see:

http://namespace.org/policy/senate.20010214.shtml
http://reclaimthe.net/icann/wto
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0114/ferguson.shtml


More about FUN:
http://fun-ny.com

Recommended ISPs:
http://www.thing.net
http://www.escape.com
http://www.panix.com

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Please circulate!

If you would like to contribute to the
event as a volunteer, speaker, or table
with your groupīs literature, please send
email to <rtn@reclaimthe.net>

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