Should we oppose the Data Superhighway/NII?

[Jon Boede]

Mike writes:
> Doug writes:
>> Mike Godwin <mnemonic at eff.org> said:
>> >First of all, EFF's Open Platform says outright that the government is not
>> >going to build the data superhighway. Check again if you don't believe me.
>> 
>> Ah...do you mean "should not build", or do you really mean that it contains
>> a discussion outlining the logic behind predicting that they *won't*
>> build?
> 
> Nobody seriously thinks the government's going to build a Data
> Superhighway. EFF's interested in seeing the private sector do it.

I thought we already had a data superhighway and what congress (et Al) is
really talking about is a national system of on-ramps and off-ramps?

Jon

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