Thomas Gal writes: > Well certainly the network controls in place in china are a good > example of this. HOWEVER I'd say really it all boild down to power. The path to power is paved with trampled freedoms. > YES! Not to mention the plethora of engineers and geeks who know too > much about what's going on and CAN complain. I'd say as more of our > knowledge pervades society more people could understand the issues > that bother some people. It's a bit like the religious debates over which operating system is best on the desktop. The average consumer doesn't care, and just goes with whatever comes installed on the machine. Only the geeks argue endlessly about supposed advantages and disadvantages to particular operating systems, none of which actually amount to a hill of beans for serious users (those who use computers to get things done, as opposed to geeks who spend their lives tweaking machines but never actually use them for anything important). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf