Re: [wg-review] New Athens or Washington?

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Greg Burton wrote:
> 
> At 10:18 AM 1/14/01, Bret Busby wrote:
> >Considering the nature of the writings of Sotiris, in the message to
> >which I respond, would it not be better, to replace the special interest
> >group constituencies, with a council of representatives, one from each
> >formally recognised country, with each representative having equal
> >voting power, whether the country be Sierra Leone, or the USA? That
> >would be interesting.
> 
> That would be the Government Advisory Council (GAC) if I understand you
> correctly. Whole different kettle of fish, but such a group does exist.
> 

No, I meant a representative of each country, elected by the Internet
users of each country, not some government appointed person with the
sole purpose of representing only the interests of the poltical
party(ies) in power.

As an example, we have a federal (more feral than anything else)
minister of communications, who instituted the Internet Oppression Bill
(the effective name, not the legal name), which outlaws material on the
Internet, that the government ionds objectional (hello, 1984, and, the
Ministry of Truth, etc). This was done, to buy the vote of a single
twisted independent senator, who held the balance of power in the upper
house of feral parliament.

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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