At 07:39 PM 8/30/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>At 12:10 PM +0000 8/30/00, Gil Hamilton wrote:
>>>Co-inventor of Web calls for "licence" to surf
>>>
>>>http://www.voila.co.uk/News/afp/media/000824125848.cf6z21i5.html
>>>
>>>"Unfortunately we have a global network, a global economy and global
>>>companies, but we have not got a global legal system. Never before have
>>>we lived in a situation like this."
>>>
>>>Excuse me... I have to go vomit now.
>>
>>That headline should be: "Co-inventor of Web *still* calling for
>>'licence' to surf". Here's a story from last October:
>>http://www.forbes.com/forbesglobal/99/1018/0221020a.htm
>>
>>Twenty years from now Cailliau will still be stamping his feet and
>>prattling on about the "dangers" of the Internet and how governments
>>need to "do something" about it. Whatever value he contributed to
>>the 'net is now history.
>
>Ironic that, as near as I can tell, _all_ of the many self-proclaimed
>"co-inventors of the Web" are calling for regulation, licensing,
>punishment of the politically incorrect, and persecution of capitalists.
>
>The anarchy of the Net is poetic justice.
Nature of the beast. You "create" something, and you feel that you should
decide how it's used. If you "create" a podium, and someone steps up and
gives a speach that is diametrically opposed to what you stand for, or even
slightly different, you're going to want to find some way to keep that
individual off of Your podium.
Doesn't make it right, nor, thankfully, practical.
As regards Petro's response to same.
Read up on the history of the U.S.A., and U.K.
Unless I've misinterpreted, slaves were forbidden to learn to read in the U.S.
Native Americans were made to give up thier traditions in favor of
"civilized" customs.
And the Irish were similary denied the ability to read, or to play thier
traditional music. (Bards tended to sing songs counter to the english
policies.) Last I heard, the bagpipe was still considered a weapon.
If I heard right, It became illegal to speak Scottish Gaelic, for a time.
Interestingly enough, all happened for the same reason. To suppress
opposition to the ruling class.
Good luck,
Sean Roach
