Re: ACM conference on computer-related policy (DC, 5/98)

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 11:11 AM -0800 1/6/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:10:49 -0800 (PST)
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu
>Subject: ACM conference on computer-related policy (DC, 5/98)
>
>[The best policy for the Net is probably no policy, or at most a hands-off
>one. We don't have national "policies" for how we should regulate, for
>example, newspapers or bookstores, and we don't need such policies for the
>Net. On universal service, we already have Internet connections that are
>cheaper than cable TV; on copyright, the safest course is to let federal
>courts decide; on crypto, most agree that the current "policy" is
>misguided at best. --Declan]
>
>***************
>
>    ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING (ACM) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
>
>                * * *  POLICY98  * * *
>         "Shaping Policy in the Information Age"
>
>            Washington, DC, Renaissance Hotel
>                    May 10-12, 1998
..

Jeez, don't these Beltway Bandits _ever_ get tired of holding these
bullshit little conferences?

It seems every month or so there's one of these b.s. things.

Must be a way to justify their existence.

"Shaping Policy in the Information Age." Give me a break.

--Tim May

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