<nettime> RE: "Imagine the Internet without Excite, Yahoo! or Amazon.com."

["Christopher Robbins" <grogg@rsub.com>]

An Open Letter to Michael H. Tchong of  ICONOCAST concerning "Back the Net" day. (http://www.iconocast.com/crusade/index.html )

In your "Back the Net" manifesto, you urge us "netizens" to "help the Net
regain its respect." We must show the world that "the Net will not only
survive, but thrive," you say.

My friend, you are confusing the dot.com bust with a general failure of the
Internet. The Internet does not to be saved. It does not need to regain its
respect. You silly fools who hopped on the bandwagon hoping to cream some
cash off of this wonderful invention are the ones who need to regain
respect.

Believe it or not, the Internet was a vibrant, intelligent, diverse place
before the likes of excite, e-storm and ePrize hopped on, and it continues
to be a vibrant, intelligent, diverse place while the NASDAQ plummets.

Your "crusade" only shows how narrow-minded you really are, and your
co-option of the solidarity fist to support some corporation's shoddy
business plan is downright offensive.

There's a lot more to the Internet than dot.com, so stop spreading your
fallacy.

Christopher Robbins
http://www.webactivism.org

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