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| | == Breach of contract == | | == Breach of contract == |
| | In every stage of these outrages, we have asked the administrators involved for redress or at least explanations. These administrators have answered our repeated petitions only by repeated injury. An administrator who thus marks his character by every act which may define a tyrannical censor, is unfit to provide network connective or social services to any community of ‘’free’’ users. (Such an administrator is also guilty of fraud, if he has promised civil authorities he would not so act.) | | In every stage of these outrages, we have asked the administrators involved for redress or at least explanations. These administrators have answered our repeated petitions only by repeated injury. An administrator who thus marks his character by every act which may define a tyrannical censor, is unfit to provide network connective or social services to any community of ‘’free’’ users. (Such an administrator is also guilty of fraud, if he has promised civil authorities he would not so act.) |
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| | Nor have we been lacking in attention to our fellow account holders. We have warned them from time to time of the vagaries of Terms of Service. Specific instances of inconsistent and selective application of such Terms of Service abound. We have reminded fellow users of the very reasons we repaired to the Internet to begin with. Those reasons concerned avoiding the censorship of the Mainstream Media, including newspapers, magazines, and the former Big Three Networks. We have appealed for common decency and fair play, and have asked them nicely, as fellow human beings, to disavow such censorship, which would inevitably interrupt our very ability to hold converse with them. | | Nor have we been lacking in attention to our fellow account holders. We have warned them from time to time of the vagaries of Terms of Service. Specific instances of inconsistent and selective application of such Terms of Service abound. We have reminded fellow users of the very reasons we repaired to the Internet to begin with. Those reasons concerned avoiding the censorship of the Mainstream Media, including newspapers, magazines, and the former Big Three Networks. We have appealed for common decency and fair play, and have asked them nicely, as fellow human beings, to disavow such censorship, which would inevitably interrupt our very ability to hold converse with them. |
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| | They, too, have turned deaf ears to the voices of justice and fellow-feeling. Worse yet, they have ‘’incited’’ administrators so to act and even ‘’castigated administrators who refuse so to act.’’ We must, therefore, acquiesce in the reality that necessitates our separation. That means holding them, as we hold the offending administrators, in ‘’breach of contract.’’ This applies to specific contracts with specific providers, and the general social contract of the Internet. | | They, too, have turned deaf ears to the voices of justice and fellow-feeling. Worse yet, they have ‘’incited’’ administrators so to act and even ‘’castigated administrators who refuse so to act.’’ We must, therefore, acquiesce in the reality that necessitates our separation. That means holding them, as we hold the offending administrators, in ‘’breach of contract.’’ This applies to specific contracts with specific providers, and the general social contract of the Internet. |
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| | == Cybernetic independence == | | == Cybernetic independence == |
| | We, therefore, conservative Internet users, editors and publishers, appealing to the Supreme Administrator of the universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of all whom we represent, solemnly publish and declare, that | | We, therefore, conservative Internet users, editors and publishers, appealing to the Supreme Administrator of the universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of all whom we represent, solemnly publish and declare, that |