<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>Is ignorance bliss?<br><br>He may not even know that those opportunites exist.<br><br>Kwasi<br><br><div><font class="sqq"><strong><font color="#007f40" face="system">..............................................................................................................................</font></strong></font></div> <div><font class="sqq"><strong><font color="#007f40" face="system">“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”</font></strong> - <font face="arial black"><font face="system">Rabbi Hillel</font></font></font></div> <div><font class="sqq"><font face="arial black"><font color="#007f40" face="System"><strong>..............................................................................................................................<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://agyakwasi.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(127, 63, 0);">Click to visit my blog</span></a><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"></span><br></strong></font></font></font></div><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 14/4/08, Ginger Paque <i><ginger@paque.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Ginger Paque <ginger@paque.net><br>Subject: Re: [governance] rights based approach to the Internet<br>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "Ian Peter" <ian.peter@ianpeter.com><br>Date: Monday, 14 April, 2008, 11:03 PM<br><br><div id="yiv343382477">
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">Is this a trick question? The
<strong>same</strong> opportunities?</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">A resounding no, for reasons that
seem too obvious to bother enumerating.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2">On the other hand, it is possible
that a person who has NO Internet access also enjoys some
<strong>different</strong> opportunities, even if she does not have as many. For
instance, lower stress level in some ways? Possibility of a rich and productive
<strong>local</strong> society?</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div>
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<a rel="nofollow" title="ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">Ian
Peter</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 14, 2008 4:36
PM</div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> RE: [governance] rights based
approach to the Internet</div>
<div><br></div>A fundamental question -<br><br>Does a person who has no
Internet access enjoy the same opportunities in<br>global society as those who
do?<br><br><br><br>Ian Peter<br>(the last living NWICO fan...)<br><br>No virus
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