net.terrorism
Shawn McMahon
smcmahon at eiv.com
Tue Jan 9 14:44:09 UTC 2001
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:07:48AM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
> > the position to be net.gods and for political reasons destroy the free
> > character of the internet.
> >
> I've been involved for over 20 years, and don't remember this "free
> character". Perhaps there is a language translation problem? That
Yeah, last time I checked, the Internet was primarily made up of privately-
owned pieces of cable, hooked together through privately-owned pieces of
equipment, residing in privately-owned buildings, monitored and maintained
by employees of privately and shareholder-owned companies.
Information may want to be free, but fiber optic cable wants to be
a million US dollars per mile.
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