Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00200)

Hi doss,

Well, the TS-Adyar in my country is supportive of my dutch,
unmoderated e-mailgroup. So, organizations can choose not
to be controlling. And I am pretty certain that if I were
to volunteer managing the dutch website, I could link to
outside subjects. But for some reason, I would feel
censored even before I started. This would be
self-censorship, I don't think the top-people know enough
about the internet to have an opinion on the subject. I
have to take that back: They do want other
(non-theosophical) organisations to link to them, so I
suppose they would not mind linking to other organizations.
But, being an independent spirit, I don't even take the
risk. This is MY website, nobody is going to control it but
ME (and geocities). >:-) (is that a devil-like smiley? It
is meant to be ;-0 ) Never thought I'd be using a devil
like smiley. But well, I suppose I am just a tad bit
protective of my internetactivities. 

Katinka
> From: ramadoss@infohwy.com
> Subject: Re: 
> 
> At 01:06 AM 8/20/01 -0700, Katinka Hesselink wrote:
> >And on an official website of the TS, I
> >suppose I would think twice before linking to other
> >subjects. But then, that is the reason why my site is
> >independent.
> 
> Dear Katinka:
> 
> Thanks for your reasoned feedback. The point I quote
> above indicates the 
> flexibility and an individual being able to put up a
> website just goes to 
> show the power of the individual in the Internet age and
> does it portend 
> the future direction of the movement away from
> organizations to that of 
> individuals. Soon organizatons may become unimportant
> except for those who 
> are comfortable with them for one reason or the other.
> 
> Also, we have the active maillists only because of their
> independence from 
> organizations, because organizations generally tend to
> love controlling and 
> censoring what goes on, and I suspect they have not come
> to terms to adjust 
> to the new environment over which no one has any control.
> 
> mkr


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