Re: Regulating the 'net (was Re: WC:>: (news) FTC staff recommends suit against Intel)

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:58:56AM -0400, Marshall Kragen wrote:
> What I am advocating is not solely an FTC fix, but an industrywide fix.
> If all on the Net understand the problem [...]

You're certainly correct about this.  But educating the entire population
of the 'net about anything this complex will take approximately forever.
We now live on a 'net where people routinely confuse Usenet newsgroups
and mailing lists, send HTML-encoded messages to mailing lists, blithely
respond to spammer's "remove me from this list" messages, and engage
in all sorts of other silly and rude behavior a zillion times a day.

Based on the fact that the majority of the population of the 'net doesn't
even understand the rudiments of how it works or how to comply
with long-standing principles of netiquette, I think the chances of
sensitizing them to complex issues like online privacy are slim to none.

---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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