BBS's put the individual back into mass society in the age of telecommunications. BBS's encourage information sharing and remove barriers to discussion posed by social status, wealth, class, race, sex, physical size, and many physical handicaps. BBS's encourage the democratic process and are a powerful new communications system which deserves Constitutional protection and First Amendment Rights. Our discussion must start immediately and we must organize to block bad BBS legislation until our voices are heard. We share the responsibility.
Time is short.
Spread the word. It is the electronic age. After reading the article in the July 29th issue of FidoNews by Chip Berlet on the new federal computer laws being proposed I decided to follow up and see how we could pool our resources in order to support the efforts of those individuals or groups that represent the majority of our bona fide BBS users and sysops. This is a relatively new group that currently includes Paul and a number of other Chicago residents. They are against federal efforts restricting bulletin boards and are currently soliciting support via messages on several bulletin boards, as well as the Source.