Re: Gore Commission wants to regulate the Net like broadcast

[Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>]

At 8:36 PM -0800 1/21/98, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At 12:30 PM -0800 1/21/98, Tim May wrote:
>>At 1:34 PM -0800 1/20/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:20:23 -0500
>>>From: Alan Moseley <amoseley@clark.net>
>>>To: declan@well.com
>>>Subject: the Gore Commission and digital media
>>>
>>>The Gore Commission -- the group created by Clinton to determine the
>>>future public interest obligations of digital TV broadcasters -- showed
>>>signs last week of broadening its reach to include other digital media
>>>that can deliver broadcast-like audio and video.
>>>...
>>>	The recent experience of the Communications Decency Act
>>>demonstrates the government's willingness to control digital speech.  The
>                                //eagerness
>>>digital convergence argument could be a  new rationale for further such
>>>interventions, Maines warned.
>>
>>Just because the Internet can deliver audio and video signals is hardly a
>>matter of "allocating scarce resources." Video rental stores can also
>>deliver video signals, but there is no (well, modulo the "obscenity" laws
>>in various communities) regulation of these sources.
>
>Presumably they intend to also regulate live theater.  It can also deliver
>audio and video.  FUBAR.
>
Nope.
Just places that rent or sell DVDs and CDs.
"Other Digital Media".

FUBAR, indeed.

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Adobe Systems   <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu>

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