At 7:04 AM 9/21/96, David M. Rose wrote:
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Declan McCullagh wrote:
[Note that the 'we" paying for the shipping clerk's network is a private corporation spending its own money. But the second "we" is the government spending netizens' money. Guess the FCC can't tell the difference. --Declan]
Correct. And if "we" fund universal service, then "we" don't want to see anything on the Net about non-GAK crypto, the right to bear arms, freedom of association, chemistry, non-clothed persons, taxes, etc. etc. "We" feel that many if not "all American, but especially kids in classrooms" would be injured by these thoughts.
This is a terribly important point. If the "universal access" scheme is approved and deployed, it gets the government back into the regulation of the Net business. (I'm speaking of the "regulation of the Net" of the sort that existed some years back, when "appropriate use" (scientific, technical, educational, etc.) was the watchword, and casual chatter, GIFs, etc. were called "inappropriate" by some. The Constitutional issues of free speech would remain mostly unchanged even if "universal access" happens, but the government would definitely get more of a foot in the door than it has now. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."