Subject:  (Reuss) Fwd "Internet a threat to industry" (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 3 Nov 1998 054308 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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......Mr.Kovacs is right!!!  It's about time, too....That the
voice of the public has a CHANCE to be heard.....That's all it
is -- a chance -- unless we USE IT......As Chris Reuss observes
below, industry has had the communication "world" to itself ...
to spew forth what it has called "the truth".....Have we been
getting the truth????.....How about our governments???....Are
they telling the truth????......I'll let the rest of you answer
that about your governments.....But as to the U.S. government --
perhaps marginally more credibility than it's Chief of State!!!
We are in bad shape.....Cheerio.....guru.....

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:14:05 +0100
From: Christoph Reuss 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Fwd: "Internet a threat to industry"

>http://www.abc.net.au/news/98/09/02/980902_45.htm   <-- MEDIA in Oz...
>
>Internet a threat to industry, forum told
>Wed, 2 Sep 1998
>
>Australia's Plastics and Chemicals Industries
>Association has been warned growth in the use of
>the Internet poses a threat to industry profits in a
>climate of growing environmental activism.
>United States Chamber of Commerce
>vice-president William Kovacs was commenting at
>the association's convention in Port Douglas.
>Mr Kovacs told delegates the biggest threat to
>plastics and chemicals, and perhaps all industry, is
>the ability for anyone to disseminate incorrect
                 ^^^^^^ [Note: Before the internet, the dissemination of
                         incorrect information to the entire world was
                         the monopoly of the PR industry... --CR]
>information cheaply to the entire world.
>He says the use of the Internet by extreme
>environmentalists and greater amounts of public
>disclosure law will create fear and allow the
>sabotage of industries.
>Mr Kovacs warns that when the tide changes
>against industry, industrialised nations will act like
>countries dominated by religious fundamentalists.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[As the industry's "God" is
                                                  money, we're already there..]





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