Pit Schultz on Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:26:32 +0100 |
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> http://info.anonymizer.com/kosovo.shtml";>Kosovo ok, this comes late, but here are some rarely asked questions: - who needs such an anonymous service in kosovo these days? who even has internet access there? people lost their passports, their homes, contact to their relatives, now they should symbolically give up their names? - who in rest-yugoslavia needs to anonymize email or web traffic? hackers surely know how to help themselves, and as everyone can see, Serbian citizens are concerned to express their opionions under their own names. to *help* the opposition everyone in a bigger western metropole can offer a place in their own appartment. the only rethoric which needs support is reconstruction. anonymity is indeed a bad way to rebuild a society wich contains quite a few war criminals. and finally *identity* seems to be the very central currency to fight for. even if it is as abstract, anonymous and cold as the 'face' of the nato. - who needs all the attention going to this remote aid? who owns it? possibly the us american privacy movement? what do you know about it? who do they really help? do you care about it? - how would *you* deal with dubious mail personalities not willing to tell their 'true' name if asked? - did you ever watch CNN and ask why there is still YU-TV sending out 'nationalistic propaganda'? - and finally for those who are really paranoid now. what is the best way to catch a fly? berlin is sunny today, people sitting outside. everything looks peaceful. the bbc world service tells me what's going on elsewhere. a new 'troll' is travelling from report to report after the confusion about 'problem and solution' it's now called 'pie in the sky'. the spiral of radical pragmatism indeed continues. do it, do it, do it. but what? the only political star in the US is a vietnam veteran demanding to send all it takes to finish the job. apocalyse wow! ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress