[governance] Yes! Hands off the Internet!

[michael gurstein]

Pranesh, I think the (high) relevance of the Nader article is in response to the position articulated by (I believe it was) David Conrad and Suresh, with respect to (particularly Facebook) that "ya' pays yer money and ya' takes yer chances" errr... you sign up to the service which includes "assenting" to some indecipherable contract waiver and then (according to them) you are subject to whatever whims or fancies their over-clever and over-priced lawyers and evil twin marketers come up with in their capricious privacy (or whatever) statement of the day... forevermore... 

M

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Subject: Re: [governance] Yes! Hands off the Internet!

Riaz K Tayob [2012-12-29 18:37]:
> See Nader on this issue... here
> <https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/contract-peonage-by-ralph-nader/>.

While Nader is quite relevant to the current discussion, I fail to see how this article of his pertains to this thread.

> Will try to dig out something on why oligopoly is a better approach to 
> understand these kinds of markets than the simple competition vs 
> monopoly argument...

Even assuming oligopoly is the better approach, what is the precise statement of the problem and what is the solution that the "oligopoly approach" provides?

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