On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Todd Puccio wrote:
> The rich and powerful can always get around the laws. The Fairest way is
> to let the access be neutral and available as possible. If price is the
> issue then people (towns, groups, associations etc.) can pool their
> resources to pay for it.
>
> Like we do for books.
More probably like health care: subsidizing access and access-speed (and
access to computers) for underemployed persons with limited incomes.
Perhaps some of that subsidy money could go to places frequented by
disadvantaged people, as well as libraries and "cybercafes."
> No publisher or government sets up a book availability tiered system based on content.
It might be feasible to set up (1) a subsidized tier (or separate
"Internet I") for provision of Internet information content (e.g.
Wikipedia, news and non-profit organizations) and e-mail separate from (2)
entertainment and shopping malls, which could be on a separate tier
[Internet II"] perhaps subsidized by corporate interests, to their
advantage.
Blogs and bandwidth-consuming social networking sites (with kitty videos)
could be on a 3rd, member- and viewer-supported tier ("internet III",
collaborative, not corporate-supported, except by donation).
It would also be advantageous to society for governments to subsidize
Internet-located small business start-ups and informal small businesses
located in shopping malls [e.g. eBay and ABE], perhaps by *not* creating a
burdensome, bureaucratic Internet sales-tax monitoring system.
Cheers!
jgm
John G. Marr
Cataloger
CDS, UL
Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
jmarr_at_unm.edu
jmarr_at_flash.net
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Received on Thu Aug 12 2010 - 19:08:03 EDT