[governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial period

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Daniel Wrote :


probably the best joke on this list since weeks ...

Jean-Louis Fullsack




> Message du 12/07/11 13:36
> De : "Daniel Kalchev" 
> A : governance at lists.cpsr.org
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> Objet : Re: [governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial period
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> On 12.07.11 14:12, Paul Lehto wrote:
> > Applied to the internet, the metaphor of parasitism can have more
> > power than it deserves. When users get accustomed to "free" internet
> > access they may start to erroneously believe that the internet happens
> > without government services in the form of telecommunications
> > infrastructure, legal infrastructure and so forth, and therefore
> > mistakenly oppose proposals to secure continued support for these
> > things to keep the internet well.
> >
> Internet has happened and was successful decades ago, only because it is 
> the largest independently owned PRIVATE network of networks in the 
> world. Nobody own the Internet. Many own small parts of it. Governments 
> resisted Internet for many, many years, throwing large amounts of money 
> and political pressure as a means to stop it's development.
> 
> This world has seen enough failed 'telecomunications infrastructure' 
> attempts. Internet is what it is because it is not that. The day it 
> becomes part of the taxation scheme and therefore strictly regulated 
> will be the day Internet will die and be replaces with the next 
> multi-stakeholder private network. Internet by itself is free, because 
> those who built it and operate it wish so. In most countries the 
> government cannot steal private property with ease.
> 
> If we talk about providing services based on Internet and taxing these 
> services, that is something completely different. It is more related 
> with trade practices (and taxation). The existing model is way outdated 
> and needs replacement. The same could be said for the copyright 
> practices etc.
> 
> Daniel
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