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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