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174 Concetta Stewart, et al.

“Freedom, privacy and censorship are linked. To give a certain level
of freedom and privacy to one person, one must inevitably
censor/regulate the privacy and freedom of another.”

F3, an African-American female:

In regards to McGovern’s essay, I don’t think it’s new think-
ing, I think it’s old thinking. All societies have regulations,
and histories of it, therefore I find the author’s argument
for a regulated cyber-society in contrast to the theory that
the on-line world is where many people might seek refuge
in a constrictive environment. Those who can, are getting
an understanding of the limits and boundaries of a interac-
tive world, today, but in the future I feel that each nation
should define their involvement in a global infrastructure
according to their cultural value of space. By setting their
global clocks by space, it will allow each nation identity to
develop a threshold for which it sets the parameters. While
it is the responsibility of the information rich to set guide-
lines for the inclusion of the information poor, it is also the
manifestation of spatial identity on the part of the under-
developed and underrepresented. It is the test of the lead-
ers of the developing nations as to how well they conserve
the interest of their countries. It’s time to play the eco-
nomic hand we’ve all been dealt. The highest ideal we
should be striving for is a sense of unison, not a lineal set of
regulations.

M1, a white American male, responds:

F3, You sound embittered. . . . You have some really good
points and a good feel for “Blarney” detection.

F3 responds:

Uh M1, would you mind e-mailing me personally and
telling me where I sounded “embittered?” From what I in-
terpreted from your analysis, you made the same points I
did. And, who is “Blarney” to you? Let’s stick with passing
judgements on global telecommunications, not on each
other. I am not impressed or amused by your psychoana-
lytic interpretations.