At 3:01 AM -0400 8/31/00, damaged justice wrote:
>http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0826/cailliau.html
>
>The "co-inventor of the World Wide Web" expounds thusly:
>
>Q: How would your licence system work? Would I have to take a test to use
> the Web?
>
>A: Exactly like driving licences. They do not ensure that you will not
> break the speed limit, but they can be taken away if you do. And
> again: a traffic regulation only limits behaviour, not content. You
> can drive where you want, when you want, provided you do it with safe
> behaviour towards other traffic users. What I want is behaviour
> regulation. We should all know what our rights and duties are. Teach
> it in schools. Hand out a licence that shows one has passed a test of
> minimal awareness.
Amongst his many travesties, he first claims that these licenses "can
be taken away if you do," and in the same paragraph claims they are
only to show that one has "passed a test of minimal awareness."
Needless to say, net.dummies like Gore or Liebermann or Bush would
not have their net licenses cancelled for doing something dumb on the
Net, thus showing their basic ineptitude. Rather, the accounts of
"white supremacists" and "hate mongers" would be the ones cancelled.
This is the way it always works. Tutsis would cancel Hutus, Paks
would cancel Indians, negroes would cancel honkies, Southern Law
Poverty Center would cancel White Aryan Resistance, and so on.
Giving the herd or its nominal herdsmen the right to revoke Net
access is just what the statists have always wanted.
Frankly, this guy has been spouting this kind of stuff for way too long.
--Tim May
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