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To: FourtySeven
Where the real problem exists, is that after a week or two (in most instances), this published data is withdrawn so that you have to pay to access it. In effect, the host organization holds information hostage.

We supposedly live in a free society with adequate disimination of information, but the reality is that the important information is being bottled up, the easier for the socialists to once again lower the curtain on another informed society.
28 posted on 04/05/2004 12:41:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
In effect, the host organization holds information hostage.

You're right. That's what I was saying pretty much in my post.

I don't think it's anything to get too worried about, if you are. After all, before the Internet, what did we have as source of archived information? Microfilm and microfishe (sp?) at the library. We still have that today. Just no one likes to do that, becuase it's a lot easier to just sit at one's computer in 5 day old sweatpants and shirts, surfing the net for what you want.

Don't get me wrong, there are political (and probably to a lesser degree financial) motivations behind this, imo. But I don't think we have to worry about information being kept from us. If we really want something, we'll just have to get our lazy a$$es up off the computer chair, and get to the library, and archive it the "old fashioned way". hehe

The real problem comes when they start keeping archived articles away from anyone, at any time. That's something to watch out for.

39 posted on 04/05/2004 12:57:38 PM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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