Einar Stefferud wrote:
>
> It is time for us all to wake up to the nonesense that is now being
> passed for "Enlightened Internet Governance"! Lets just solve the
> primary market structure problem and get out of the need for
> regulation.
Who will listen to your wise words? People want power. Power and
money. Control. Greed. They're going to ruin the Internet, and ten
years from now it will take some very different sorts of politicians
from those running things today to recreate it, if it can be
recreated once it's been strangled.
It's like Vietnam. We've got to kick ourselves in the ***** before
we realize we've been wrong. Once politicians and lawyers get their
hooks in, there's only one way things can go: legislation and
constraint. Regulation. Have you seen the new Congressional Internet
Caucus, made up of over 100 Congressmen, with an Advisory Committee
that's got Microsoft on it as well as the Society of Biblical
Literature? Those congress people are making business for
themselves, and they don't see, or don't care, that their business
could mean killing business on the Internet.
What happened to the White Paper and Internet self-regulation? A
fairytale for the IFWP.
