Abgeschickt von NaT Reyerson am 12 Maerz, 2003 um 01:26:55:
"You have all heard of America Online...you should visit AOL, and try to start a riot. Try to rally AOL subscribers to some political cause...There are places you can go - chat rooms for example - but only 23 people can be in a chat room at anyone time...So the option for a revolutionary on AOL is to race around these 23 person chat rooms...AOL has solved the problem of protest by architecting its space to eliminate public spaces, or places where many people can gather...There is no place for public protest on AOL, but you aren`t likely to notice it. AOL has been architected to keep protest down...On AOL, the system knows who you are...it knows your purchasing habits, it knows what places you have visited; it knows who you email; it knows how often you check your email; it knows where you chat, and with whom you chat; in principle, it knows what you say in your "private chat" rooms. The Internet, originally, was different." (Lawrence Lessig: Cyberspace`s Constitution, 10.2.00, Berlin)