On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Lovins, Daniel wrote:
> I haven't studied it closely enough myself yet, but here's Larry
> Lessig's take, courtesy of the New York Times:
> http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/8/9/who-gets-priority-on-the-web/a-deregulation-debacle-for-the-internet
Here's a tiny url for that and its several associated links:
http://tinyurl.com/23w6c5u
IMHO, everyone is overlooking the basic issue that the legal system
addresses, i.e. the interests of economic expansion [i.e. profit
generation] always override personal concerns (e.g. the "good" to society
of the former override the non-economic "rights" [e.g. freedom of
expression] of the latter).
IMHO (do I have to keep saying that?), it is time for the provision of
information to be considered a vital public service, rather than a form of
entertainment or data being a restrictable commercial commodity, and for
ISPs to be designated "public utilities" subject to the same levels of
government oversight as other "utilities." Or, maybe the Government can
be the ISP for the US and we can receive Internet access as a "right" via
our tax forms.
Still there will always be the problem of who controls the corporations
and/or the governments at any particular time. We seem to be evolving
toward some sort of restructuring of both those concepts, which, I
suspect, will do a great deal of harm in the process until the madness of
misdirection is recognized.
Cheers!
jgm
John G. Marr
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Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
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