We Don't Need No Steenking Digital Superhighway!!

[Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>]

TCM> == Timothy C May <tcmay@netcom.com>

 TCM> In fact, it is the EFF's talk about the "need" for such a government
 TCM> effort that really worries me about the EFF (a mild kind of
 TCM> worry...I haven't completely detweilered over it). I'm not clear
 TCM> just how central are these issues to the EFF, currently, but I urge
 TCM> us all to try to convince them that the "electronic frontier" really
 TCM> doesn't need government-built channels and routes.

Have you read the article in _The New Republic_, titled "Mitch Kapor: Data
Highway Guru"?  It's been conveniently electronified and is included in
O'Reilly's _Global Network Navigator_ hyperzine, even.  (Mail info@gnn.com
for details.)

This quote's well within fair use size, given the size of the article:

   Kapor supports a nationwide fiber grid, and sees ISDN as a transitional
   step, not a substitute. Still, he does oppose big government financing
   for fiber, and this financing did seem a live prospect in January,
   after Gore's ambitious campaign rhetoric. Gore now says he was
   misinterpreted and had never envisioned a big government role. In any
   event, the interest in ISDN stoked by EFF and Markey helped end
   discussion of any such role.

I highly encourage you all to give the article a look; since GNN is free,
anyway...
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