I had an idea last night.

[gridlore]

As everyone knows, we are fast approaching the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Everyone is discussing how the best memorialize the event, and the people lost. Here's my two cents.

A day of silence on the Internet. For one calendar day, starting at 0001 11 SEP 02, your local time, stop posting, emailing, surfing whatever. A global day of silence moving around the world. I realize that this would be impossible for those in business who rely on the net, but I think it would be a powerful statement. I remember on that day the messages on the Traveller Mailing List to our NYC members asking "are you ok?" And I know the terrible silence when one person never replies to those calls.

So for one day, stay off the net. It will survive. talk on the phone, go for a walk, or just remember how much we all lost on the terrible day, one year ago.

Comments

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, count me in the not only no but hell no camp. Osama Bin Ladin wants to disrupt my life. He will not. He prevented his peopel form using the internet, because it represents a free flow of information that he just can't abide. I will use it, and I will make a point of using it in ways he hates. I'll talk to people of differing faiths and creeds. I'll talk to people of differing sexualities. I will look at images he finds sinful. I will exercise my first ammendment rights to free religion and free speech, two right he hates. And if he doesn't like it, he can come talk to me and I'll show him what other rights I like to exercise. Or he can hide in his cave and pray for a dialysis machine.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Actually, he wants you dead. Has said so.