The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship

[Doug Peterson]

Eric Murray wrote:
> 
> Declan McCullagh writes:
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> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:16:47 -0500
> > From: Marc Rotenberg <rotenberg at epic.org>
> > To: fight-censorship at vorlon.mit.edu
> > Subject: The Real Plan: Making the Net Safe for Censorship
> 
> That should be Making the Net Safe for SafeSurf.
> 
> The proposal is a classic example of "if you can't beat 'em in
> the marketplace, beat 'em in the legislature".  It would require
> a rating system while locking out new competition from the net
> censorshipratings field.   SafeSurf operates
> a ratings system.  Can you say "conflict of interest"?
> 
> Note provision 3, which stipuates that a rating must be "issued by a
> ratings service that has a minimum of 5,000 documented individuals usin
> its system to mark their data."
> 
> That'd kind of make it hard to start a competing ratings system, wouldn't it?
It like some unions I know.  You can't work unless you belong to the
union, but
you can't join the union unless you are working.

-Doug