| Christopher Robbins on 5 Apr 2001 14:56:11 -0000 |
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| <nettime> RE: "Imagine the Internet without Excite, Yahoo! or Amazon.com." |
An Open Letter to Michael H. Tchong of ICONOCAST concerning "Back the Net" day. (http://www.iconocast.com/crusade/index.html ) In your "Back the Net" manifesto, you urge us "netizens" to "help the Net regain its respect." We must show the world that "the Net will not only survive, but thrive," you say. My friend, you are confusing the dot.com bust with a general failure of the Internet. The Internet does not to be saved. It does not need to regain its respect. You silly fools who hopped on the bandwagon hoping to cream some cash off of this wonderful invention are the ones who need to regain respect. Believe it or not, the Internet was a vibrant, intelligent, diverse place before the likes of excite, e-storm and ePrize hopped on, and it continues to be a vibrant, intelligent, diverse place while the NASDAQ plummets. Your "crusade" only shows how narrow-minded you really are, and your co-option of the solidarity fist to support some corporation's shoddy business plan is downright offensive. There's a lot more to the Internet than dot.com, so stop spreading your fallacy. Christopher Robbins http://www.webactivism.org _____________RSUB__________________________ http://www.rsub.com go there now - - - - -> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]