--- Subject: Prisoners of K Street Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500 From: "James V. Delong" <JDeLongat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declanat_private> Declan - Re your piece this morning. Best, Jim http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=1923 --- Prisoners of K Street UpDates by James V. DeLong November 1, 2000 From the October/November issue of CEI UpDate Recently I was talking with Roger Cochetti, VP of Network Solutions and experienced observer of the high tech scene. "The Internet is at a fork," he said. "Over the next couple of years it could be confirmed in its existence as a free-market, free-wheeling, chaotic, fount of imaginative innovation and multiplying value. Or it could go down the road taken by broadcasting and telephone, becoming regulated, stodgy, hostile to technical progress, and lawyer-driven." These comments are serious. A couple of years ago, members of Congress boasted that they knew enough to keep their hands off the Internet. They must have lost some brain cells since, because in the current session over 400 bills were introduced to govern the Internet in one way or another. Congress is even adopting the device of sticking mandates into appropriations bills, without hearings or real thought. You want to require all schools and libraries that get federal funds to impose filtering? No problem-insert it into in an appropriations bill. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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