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.
--Tim May
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