Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:10:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:10:44 -0400 Received: from Expansa.sns.it ([192.167.206.189]:53777 "EHLO Expansa.sns.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:10:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 02:11:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Genoni To: "D. Stimits" cc: Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 In-Reply-To: <3BD48CF5.FF5C4688@idcomm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ohh, our prime minister declared USA the main defensor of liberty. Of course he was thinking also to this law. You know he has three television, a couple of newspapers and so on... His natural attitude brings him to agree in every case with USA government. He is a good vendor. Apart of this. In Italy we are making a lot of pressure against a stupid law about copyrights, but when the prime minister is the owner of the biggest television and most important newspapers, and when the statal television and newspaper are a little assentive with the government (oh... just a little), we are under censure. And anyway we publish articles and public mails about that, we open web sites. We try to inform, and belive me, italians are not so interested is a soccer team is not involved. USA citizens should have less dificoulties to do something similar, but I am not informed of a real effort from them. Luigi p.s. of course, please, tell me I am wrong On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, D. Stimits wrote: > > NO! US citizens should provide the most pressure, but thinking that > nations which the USA trades with and is partners with have no influence > is plain wrong. To state only citizens of USA can help means that you > truly believe the USA is an island untouched by the world around it. You > can't fight this from jail, but you don't have to be a USA citizen to > bring to light the shear stupidity of some US law. Sometimes a foreign > country has more influence in shouting about the wrong doings than do US > citizens...the political point of information input is different, all > angles are required. You don't have to be responsible for a problem in > order to be able to help solve it. > > D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com > > > > > Why are you asking Alan to risk prison _and_ pressure > > US politicians? That's something you, as a resident > > of the USA, should be doing yourself. > > > > Rik > > -- > > DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ (volunteers needed) > > > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/