Gutfreund@cs.mass.edu (01/23/87)
Has anyone noticed an interesting correlation between recent protests in China for democracy and WorldNet. It seems that one of the concrete components of what the students are asking for is freedom of speech, specifically: the ability to post "Large Character" posters on walls of highly emotional content (read "flaming"). These "Large Character" posters gather large crowds who spread their contents via the human grapevine. There is no other media that is freely open for public flaming. They even seem to have a variant of the same "anonymous" issue that occurs in our electified digests and mailing lists. - Steven Gutfreund -------