[governance] 'search neutrality' to go with net neutrality

[Roland Perry]

In message <8F972BDA-AADF-4B65-80FC-3C994A44D8ED at acm.org>, at 10:19:53 
on Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> writes
>Hi,
>
>This seems to describe things in such black and white contrast:  either 
>governments must come in and give us a crutch or we have a dog eat dog 
>Thatcherite regime.

That's a misrepresentation of the Thatcherite doctrine. The UK continued 
with policies that were much more socialist than many other countries 
(Nationalised Health and Education, widespread welfare system etc).

Her statement, which is basically "There's no such thing as a 
Disney-esque Fairy Godmother" did not deny the possibility that the 
State should continue to organise a very wide range of state-run 
benefits, and collect large amounts of taxation to fund them!

R.

>On 7 Jan 2010, at 09:09, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> So it's nothing to do with "social/public interest", but whether or not
>> people can expect a magic financial crutch to support them in their
>> adversity. It's almost exactly the same set of issues as the current USA
>> healthcare debate.
>>
>> I wonder how many people on this list would wish that governments got
>> themselves organised, and [attempted to] sort out all the perceived ills
>> on the Internet, on the grounds that they believe the current mechanisms
>> were failing their collective citizens?
>>
>> And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is most of the IG debate in a nutshell.
>
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