[governance] Cerfing the Web, or Serfing the Web? (Understanding Google's Internet Evangelism against Internet Access Rights)

[Paul Lehto]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>        It would be odd for an evangelist of the Christian religion, or
> any other religion, to argue that people had no right of access to the
> "Technology" of the Christian religion - the book known as the Bible.  ***
> *
>
> Depends on what you mean by a right of access. Christians (well,
> Protestants) fought tenaciously for the right to print it themselves, read
> it themselves, and make their own interpretations. ****
>
> But none of them asked the government to buy them a copy. And when they
> did, they immediately got into new wars over what would be the official
> state religion. The idea that states provide things with no strings
> attached is nonsense. ****
>
> I think you are just being misled by the semantic distinction between
> government subsidies as a "right" and a right not to have others deny you
> or take away access. ****
>
> **
>
Not sure how I am "misled" by this distinction because, elsewhere in these
threads on the Cerf oped, I expressly raised this distinction between a
"right of access" and a "right of government-paid access."



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