From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Raw Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:41:49 +0800
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:41:49 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Gore Commission wants to regulate the Net like broadcast
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At 12:30 PM -0800 1/21/98, Tim May wrote:
>At 1:34 PM -0800 1/20/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:20:23 -0500
>>From: Alan Moseley <amoseley@clark.net>
>>To: declan@well.com
>>Subject: the Gore Commission and digital media
>>
>>The Gore Commission -- the group created by Clinton to determine the
>>future public interest obligations of digital TV broadcasters -- showed
>>signs last week of broadening its reach to include other digital media
>>that can deliver broadcast-like audio and video.
>>...
>> The recent experience of the Communications Decency Act
>>demonstrates the government's willingness to control digital speech. The
//eagerness
>>digital convergence argument could be a new rationale for further such
>>interventions, Maines warned.
>
>Just because the Internet can deliver audio and video signals is hardly a
>matter of "allocating scarce resources." Video rental stores can also
>deliver video signals, but there is no (well, modulo the "obscenity" laws
>in various communities) regulation of these sources.
Presumably they intend to also regulate live theater. It can also deliver
audio and video. FUBAR.
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