Governemnts should give up regulating Internet [CNN] (fwd)

[Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>]

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Subject: Governemnts should give up regulating Internet [CNN]
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>                GOVERNMENTS CAN'T HANDLE INTERNET, SAYS MAGAZINER

>    September 11, 1998
>    Web posted at 1:20 PM EDT
>    
>    by Jana Sanchez-Klein
>    
>    LONDON (IDG) -- European countries should cooperate with the U.S. to
>    create an Internet that is regulated by the industry rather than by
>    governments, said Ira Magaziner, senior adviser to U.S. President Bill
>    Clinton for Internet policy development, at The Wall Street Journal
>    Europe's Fifth Annual CEO Summit on Converging Technologies.
>    
>    "We are trying to come to an agreement with the European Union where
>    they recognize our approach," said Magaziner, a speaker at the
>    conference here today.
>    
>    He outlined the importance of the Internet to the U.S. and world
>    economies and said that it was not up to governments to attempt to
>    control Internet use and commerce. Magaziner attributed one-third of
>    all economic growth in the U.S. to the building of the Internet. But,
>    he warned, "if goods are overtaxed or overregulated, it's hard to do
>    business. The private sector should lead."
>    
>    Governments are ill-equipped to handle the Internet, because it
>    changes too rapidly, it's too decentralized and too international,
>    suggested Magaziner.
>    
>    "The digital age moves too quickly for government action," he said.

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