On 22 March 2013 12:38, Edward Morris <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > i'd suggest ALAC's views reflect the fact it is not dedicated to advocacy > for noncommercial interests and has a substantial commercial component in > it's membership. We don't claim to speak for all "end users" as you claim. > We represent the two billion noncommercial users of the internet. > Commercial end users have other places to go, including ALAC. > Hmm. What constitutes a "non-commercial user"? Someone who never purchases goods or services on the Internet, has a no-cost ISP and never reads content on ad-supported websites or uses analytics-supported search engines? Is that really two billion? Just curious. So we have dictatorship of the proletariat? The only way to save the bottom > up MSM is through top down control? > Dictatorship of the proletariat? That sounds more like Marxism 101 than top-down. - Evan