Wolfgang Staehle on Fri, 27 Apr 2001 06:48:35 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> CYBER BOYCOTT OF 2001 |
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 ================================================= 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> ================================================= # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net