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Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End
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| May 28, 2006
| ADAM COHEN
Posted on 05/29/2006 11:11:16 AM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:11:21 AM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989
Someone need to enlighten Al Gore about this troubling new developement.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:14:36 AM PDT
by
corbe
(mystified)
To: neverdem
The days of the Wild West of the 'net are going to be over soon. Worst of all will be the influx of the infernal revenuers, who need to be run out of town on a rail.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:14:45 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
To: neverdem
I smell a rat. The Times was a leader in getting the execrable CFR passed, which made it a crime to say anthing bad about any Liberal. I suspect the Times is up to its slimey tricks again.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:16:16 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: neverdem
Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End
. . .
Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. In other words, there internet is in danger of becoming the NYT.
To: Paladin2
the ISPs need paying subscribers. once they start restricting certain sites, some portion of their subscriber base will start cancelling service.
charging certain content hosts, who need more bandwidth to run their services - that is simply basic business practice. whether they get the money from the consumer (you can already pay more for faster service at your home, if you want it), or from those content providers themselves, that's not the same thing as totally eliminating certain sites based on politics.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:21:32 AM PDT
by
oceanview
To: martin_fierro
there internet = the internet
To: neverdem
The word "democratic" no longer means what it did; now it refers to socialism lite!
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:31:25 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
To: corbe
no, no, no...Al Gore invented it and we must never forget. He, alone in a dark room, is the almighty webmaster.
All hail Al.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:32:07 AM PDT
by
IZ-Contractor
(tongueincheek)
To: corbe
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989 Someone need to enlighten Al Gore about this troubling new developement. The Web is not the Internet as the article pains to make clear. Many of us were using the Internet for e-mail, ftp, telnet, and Usenet long before the Web was conceived.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:32:21 AM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls
web = http ? Is that what he invented?
To: corbe
Why not let free markets determine the pricing mechanism? Often, it's efficient that those using a scarce resource pay in proportion to their use. Berners-Lee's free speech concerns should be directed at government censors, not at competitive markets.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:40:04 AM PDT
by
mdefranc
To: Jack Black
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:44:34 AM PDT
by
bwteim
(BWTEIM = Begin With The End In Mind)
To: martin_fierro
Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sorry, it won't happen. There is too much money being made by a free web, and socilaists who want to tax its commerce, won;t be able to enforce due to technical innovation and the webs black market.
The only way the web can be controlled is to shut it down completely.
Censorship by government would only cause an amalgamation of hackers and legitimate web users, and off shore sub rosa servers, accessable via VHF radio and satellite.
The cat is out of the bag, no government can ultimately dictate web content or its commerce without declaring war on its own citizenry. Step up to the plate dems and MSM, stick your arm in here and watch it get chewed right off!
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:46:50 AM PDT
by
Candor7
To: oceanview
I think you're confusing the free market with monopoly.
The idea expressed in the article is that the tiered pricing would not be based upon content, but upon the sector of the audience that the type of site reaches. Thus Drudge would be charged huge fees because of his weekly hits. He probably wouldn't be able to afford the licensing fee his web host would force upon him (regulated by the government, of course). But sites like the NY Times could.
The NY Times has already editorialized that the 1st Amendment does not apply to the Internet and that some uses the Internet (such as blogs) is an abuse of the First Amendment, because anyone can post any "news" that may not be factually based, thus expressing opinion rather than news. Ironic that the Times would levy such a complaint, but hypocrisy is the standard of the Left.
This is why they're running the story. They'll claim to be on the side of democracy, but as the debate heats up they'll switch tack and say, "There have been too many inaccuracies in Blogs and this is inciting people based upon misinformation. We need to regulate them." Tiered pricing will be seen as the "fairest" regulator. In order to host a site with news or editorials, you'll have to pay some sort of licensing or broadcasting fee, much as radio and television stations do, which Leftists like the Times will hope will be too much for you and me to pay. Thus we'll drop out of existence and join and log onto the megasites that can afford the fees, reducing us once again from vigilant participants in this Republic to mere consumers.
Big news companies will support it because at heart they have a tendency toward Corporate Socialism. They don't mind paying a fee if tiered pricing eliminates their competition and helps them establish and maintain a monopoly.
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posted on
05/29/2006 11:58:26 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: Jack Black
The www. bit is the world wide web.
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posted on
05/29/2006 12:13:47 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: FreedomCalls
However, the Internet was invented by a bunch of reserach scientists at various labs. Algore couldn't even get a Divinity degree, never mind abour a degree in hard science.
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posted on
05/29/2006 12:16:26 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: FreedomCalls
However, the Internet was invented by a bunch of research scientists at various labs. Algore couldn't even get a Divinity degree, never mind abour a degree in hard science.
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posted on
05/29/2006 12:16:54 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: corbe
the British computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989, Wrong.
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posted on
05/29/2006 12:56:00 PM PDT
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
The irony is that Bill Bradley initially promoted Campaign "Finance Reform" speech regulation under the rhubric of preventing "the poor man's soap box" from being overwhelmed by "the rich man's wallet." At the very moment Bradley was promoting that conceit, the WWW was beginning to become a "poor man's soap box" competitive with the rich man's wallet.
And that's what John McCain and his buddies at The New York Times don't like about it.
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posted on
05/29/2006 1:51:09 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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