Re: [wg-review] The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

["Miles B. Whitener" <mbw@i-theta.com>]

> Bret,
> I agree with the points you made
>  especially about
> > > There's a distribution of ownership from "public" (whatever
that is) at
> one
> > > end of the spectrum, to individual governments, to
educational
> > > institutions, to corporations, down to individuals (I own
my
> > > router, hubs, computers, wires, and have rights to use my
IP
> > > numbers [which one can't really operate without] and
domains
>
> if this distribution of ownership is "fair"  is the billion
dollar question
>
> Kwami Ahiabenu,II
> Ghana

 I think the definition of fair is the bigger question.
 Some think it's fair to, routinely and by policy, take what
others own, by force, and redistribute it.  This is not only not
fair but it results in general misery and poverty, because those
forced to work are not very productive, and often opt out any way
they can.  Some think that man is really God and can and must
dictate all that happens on earth, and therefore that man is
capable of somehow cosmically making everying "fair".
 What's fair, and what contributes to wealth and well being (IN
GENERAL) is the defense, by government and individuals, of
private property.  This includes property that was discovered and
claimed by individuals.  It protects everyone' right to make free
exchanges.
 So if you assert some kind of "rights" of the masses as against
the ownership of hardware and rights of way by individuals, you
are erring as described above.  You can only make things fair in
so far as you have the power and right to do so.  You have the
right to give what you own to somebody else, but you do not have
the right to take what I own and give it to somebody else.


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