On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:00:26 -0700, "Cthulhu's Little Helper"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>On 29 June 1999, "Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>The Internet and many other things are not biological systems like
>>>>a salamander is. People of good well and with public interest can and
>>>>should exert what effort they can to help direct the growth and development
>>>>of social institutions like the Internet into socially valuable directions.
>>
>>How can a communications media have a socially valuable direction?
>>
>>Does the phone system have a socially valuable direction?
>>
>>Methinks you're talking about content, not transpor
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>Ahh, but Richard...couldn't the rules which govern transport be constructed
>in socially beneficial or socially detrimental ways? :)
And who decides what is "socially beneficial or detrimental?"
That is a dangerous path to tread down.
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William X. Walsh
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