Comments on: Is Broadband a Civil Right? http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/ On the theory and practice of networking Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Brett Glass http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/comment-page-1/#comment-428144 Brett Glass Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:10:56 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/#comment-428144 Richard: The relevant point is that the government should keep its hands off the Internet unless it's necessary to step in to prevent anticompetitive conduct. Richard: The relevant point is that the government should keep its hands off the Internet unless it’s necessary to step in to prevent anticompetitive conduct.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/comment-page-1/#comment-428142 Richard Bennett Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:37:20 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/#comment-428142 That's a minor detail. That’s a minor detail.

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/comment-page-1/#comment-428141 Seth Finkelstein Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:34:47 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/#comment-428141 "Law actually is monolithic"??? For heaven's sake, obscenity is a geographic variable, arguably with additional time-dependency on top of that! In the US, law varies from state to state, and on the Federal level, it can vary sometimes in area too ("Circuit Courts"). It's actually a mess from the standpoint of the geek mindset. “Law actually is monolithic”??? For heaven’s sake, obscenity is a geographic variable, arguably with additional time-dependency on top of that! In the US, law varies from state to state, and on the Federal level, it can vary sometimes in area too (“Circuit Courts”). It’s actually a mess from the standpoint of the geek mindset.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/comment-page-1/#comment-428140 Richard Bennett Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:22:42 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/#comment-428140 @Seth: Law actually is monolithic; some things really are simple. @Brett: Relevance? @Seth: Law actually is monolithic; some things really are simple.

@Brett: Relevance?

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/comment-page-1/#comment-428139 Seth Finkelstein Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:12:50 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/07/is-broadband-a-civil-right/#comment-428139 Richard, that's again too far simplistic. Governments aren't monolithic, there are always factions (cryptography was a great example, the financial factions were deadset against the law-enforcement factions). Inversely, the interests of corporations can put in place an infrastructure for MASSIVE spying, as e.g. Google does with Gmail, far beyond what would be ordinarily acceptable in a publicly owned system. Trying to find some way to just consult net.libertarian ideology for the answer is nonsense. Richard, that’s again too far simplistic. Governments aren’t monolithic, there are always factions (cryptography was a great example, the financial factions were deadset against the law-enforcement factions). Inversely, the interests of corporations can put in place an infrastructure for MASSIVE spying, as e.g. Google does with Gmail, far beyond what would be ordinarily acceptable in a publicly owned system.

Trying to find some way to just consult net.libertarian ideology for the answer is nonsense.

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