Declare E-Mail Independence

Net Effect — Simson Garfinkel: “More than 630,000 AT&T customers were forced to make this change. They could have used the occasion to simply and inexpensively assert their electronic individuality and independence. Instead, the majority behaved like good sheep and did what they were told: moved from one mega-corporate address that they didn’t own to another. Baa-a-a-a! Baa-a-a-a!” MIT Technology Review Access to the rest of the article at Tech Review requires a subscription, but you can subscribe to Simson Garfinkel’s mailing list simsoft@nitroba.com for unrestricted access to his writing on digital freedom and cyberculture.