At 12:30 PM 1/21/98 -0800, Tim May wrote:
The Internet is about pure speech, about publishing. For the Gore Commission to even _hint_ at regulating it is reprehensible.
You know better than that, Tim - The Internet is about Commerce! The military started it, federal funding for universities made it popular, Physicists working for Foreign Governments and grad students at US government universities made the Web, and Big Commerce made it grow. It's all Federal Interest - trust them! And besides, IPv4 addresses _are_ a scarce resource that needs to be allocated for the public good, and IPv6 has to be stopped because it will devalue the addresses given to IPv4 users (which would be an unconstitutional "taking" of their entitlements) not to mention because it supports technology that could support narcoterrorist agents of foreign governments and money-laundering father-raping pornographers.
Video rental stores can also >deliver video signals, but there is no (well, modulo the "obscenity" laws in various communities) regulation of these sources.
There's also regulation against revealing the rental records of individual customers (at least customers named Bork or Thomas), except to accommodate the legitimate needs of law endorsement or advertising. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639