>[Richard J. Solomon is the Chief Scientist of the UPenn Center for >Communications Technology and Policy and the co-author with Lee >McKnight and Russell Neuman of The Gordian Knot: Gridlock on the >Information Highway (MIT Press, 1997) > >Would the U.S. Government regulate the Internet? And how will this come about? > >"Richard J. Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've answered the first question already: it is na�ve to think that the Federal Government (not to mention the other 191 world governments) won't impose regulations on the Net, and it is na�ve to think that any such infrastructure with the threat to completely influence society and change power relationships - as advertised by the Net's own hypists and promoters - can possibly avoid entanglements with the Government. given ICANN as the only alternative I will take the federal government any day in the week. It is far less arrogant in its treatment of its citizens than Cerf, Roberts and Dyson . It *is* the process.... some ill defined end must not be allowed to justify ICANN's means. I reject the immaculate conception of esther as net mother goddess **************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet Index to seven years of the COOK Report 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA http://cookreport.com (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) ICANN: The Internet's Oversight Board - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW - Incompetence or Duplicity? ICANN and it Allies' Stealth Agenda http://cookreport.com/isoccontrol.shtml ****************************************************************
