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JaimeSalasFirstPaper 4 - 06 Jan 2013 - Main.EbenMoglen
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You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. | | | From a regulatory perspective, maybe the main role for governments is to take the leadership in promoting investment and competition in high-speed networks and services. That would be their main contribution in order to promote robust competition in the provision of high-speed broadband Internet and make it available to users at affordable prices and to attain the greatest geographic coverage, but regarding what people will do with their internet connection, government action cannot help. | |
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> | How do you satisfy yourself of the conclusion that
networks—including wireless networks "made" of the spectrum
which is every citizen's common, equal property—should be built
as private property of favored capitalists, given exclusive access to
those common resources by the state? Did you consider that networks
should be built by the people, for common use and common ownership?
On what basis did you reject that possibility?
Similarly, how did you satisfy yourself that the State has a choice
of "Internet policy"? If the State is committed to protecting
freedom of expression and freedom of thought, what choices with
respect to the regulation of content in the Net is it free to make?
If it is not committed to protecting freedom of expression and
freedom of thought, what difference does it make which elements of
oppression of speech and thought it makes official, as opposed to
unofficial, policy? | | | | |
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