From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 21:13:47 PST
To: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Subject: Re: Should we oppose the Data Superhighway/NII?
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Doug writes:

> Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org> said:
> >First of all, EFF's Open Platform says outright that the government is not
> >going to build the data superhighway. Check again if you don't believe me.
> 
> Ah...do you mean "should not build", or do you really mean that it contains
> a discussion outlining the logic behind predicting that they *won't*
> build?

Nobody seriously thinks the government's going to build a Data
Superhighway. EFF's interested in seeing the private sector do it.

> <shudder> I skipped that session because I was already bored to tears with
> the prospect of "playing football from home while watching it on tv"
> and by that of 500 pay-per-view-channels. Were they really boosting
> HSN-type stuff? How completely evil!

Well, you should have stayed to watch me rabble-rouse.



--Mike