<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I am quite sure you meant to say "Skype is too essential to be interfered with by government"<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 7/31/09, McTim <I><dogwallah@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] Shock threat to shut Skype<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "Michael Gurstein" <gurstein@gmail.com><BR>Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 4:15 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Michael Gurstein<<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gurstein@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Anyone agree with me that Skype, like medical care, is too essential a<BR>> service to be left to the market...<BR><BR>no<BR><BR>><BR>> I'm not sure what can be done about this but it seems to me that this (or at<BR>> least this class of issues) would be a suitable discussion topic for the<BR>> next Internet Governance Forum...<BR>><BR>> How does one declare an Internet service as essential to the global interest<BR>> and introduce some means to ensure its survival?<BR><BR>eBay spent 2.6 B USD on this thing...do you think they will actually<BR>shut it down?<BR>-- <BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>McTim<BR>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<BR>route indicates how we
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