9 Jan
2001
9 Jan
'01
9:44 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:07:48AM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
the position to be net.gods and for political reasons destroy the free character of the internet.
I've been involved for over 20 years, and don't remember this "free character". Perhaps there is a language translation problem? That
Yeah, last time I checked, the Internet was primarily made up of privately- owned pieces of cable, hooked together through privately-owned pieces of equipment, residing in privately-owned buildings, monitored and maintained by employees of privately and shareholder-owned companies. Information may want to be free, but fiber optic cable wants to be a million US dollars per mile.