Re[2]: [ga] Old proposal

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Dennis,

Tuesday, February 06, 2001, 5:51:46 PM, Dennis Schaefer wrote:

> Hi Marilyn --

> Sorry about the misdirect.  I was sure I had hit to Reply to
> All. <G>

> I can't disagree with you about the infrastructure consisting of privately
> owned facilities.  But the ether that holds that structure together is
> the public forum called the Internet -- which was built with taxpayer money.

Only a very small part of it, Dennis.

> So selling that public forum to private interests not beholden to
> constitutional matters of
> due process and free speech is roughly like letting the Ku Klux Klan rent
> out the
> US Capitol.

Talk about blowing things out of proportion.

> I am not anti-business -- just pro civil liberties.

In this case, you are being both, which can be ok, however you have
taken both positions to excess here.

There is nothing to indicate that civil liberties suffer simply
because the internet's infrastructure is privately owned.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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