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The Internet is the Cause of Terrorist Acts

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:13:26 -0400 Send reply to: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@WELL.COM> Subject: The Internet is the Cause of Terrorist Acts To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

The House of Lords is helpfully explaining the connection between the Internet and terrorism.

--Mike

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhans rd/pdvn/lds01/text/10914-03.htm Lord Howell of Guildford: ... The new reality which some people are beginning to face and some of us have argued about over the past five or six years since the age of information technology and the Internet began is that power has been transferred away from responsible governments or even irresponsible governments into the hands of some good but some extremely dangerous organisations. It may be said that flying airliners into skyscrapers is not new technology, but the whole organisation of this devilish plot was driven by e-mail, Internet, modern secret communication, coding and ciphering of a kind which would not have been possible 10 or even five years ago. It enabled these people simply to programme their aeroplanes, once they had seized them, to drive straight into the World Trade Centre. So technology has transferred power and the sooner democracies and governments understand that point the sooner we shall be able to cope with the entirely new situation -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- "I speak the password primeval .... I give the sign of democracy ...." --Walt Whitman Mike Godwin can be reached by phone at 202-637-9800 His book, CYBER RIGHTS, can be ordered at http://www.panix.com/~mnemonic . --------------------------------------------------------------------

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