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Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

Home Vid — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:22:49 -0000

Austin R.: Spam-free is nice and please note my previous remark about advertising was about the typical activist-advocates and their likely hypocrisy here given who these folks are.

+1 I totally agree with your accurate view!

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

DLS — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:38:29 -0000

Super D: Yes, don't expect the private comm providers to compete very well against the government. They can probably surpass government quality but not cost given the market rigging governments can do, by definition.

Austin R.: Spam-free is nice and please note my previous remark about advertising was about the typical activist-advocates and their likely hypocrisy here given who these folks are.

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

DLS — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:36:11 -0000

Also, the people actually defending porn, including government-provided porn (talk about the truly degenerate) are likely the very same ones who want to suppress not only pharmaceutical advertising but _all_ advertising. (Except favored stuff like porn, I guess.)

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

DLS — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:34:21 -0000

"Should we give them a computer too?"

If the Messiah works his economic miracle and frees us to pursue more ambitious lefty goals, yes, this will be identified as part of the "digital divide" with the solution to it being obvious, asking your question _and_ replying forcefully in the affirmative.

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

DLS — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:32:35 -0000

"Consumer advocates have objected to the FCC’s proposed pornography filter"

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"Let me put it another way. The government builds highways for free public use... so why shouldn't they build information highways?"

Well, that's cheap equivocation and I know you're capable of better, but the actual point you're making is valid enough -- provide communication infrastructure as well as transportation infrastructure (and services, in the case of, say, air traffic control). As a matter of fact, I have long thought about this, not necessarily to support or resist the concept but in thinking that, in an ideal revisional-historical world, someone like Jefferson would like seeing a PC in the hands of everyone (especially children) while specifically, Hamilton would probably like a federal comm-net. (He'd consider it "national," of course; he was our premier as well as early nationalist.)

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

Rambie — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:57:02 -0000

AR "I would rather have a spam-free wireless service. Hell, I would pay extra for that."

GD, "Well, as long as my kids can still access graphic violence on the web..."

Agreed.

Like SD, I think this is a terrible idea and the government would end up hurting businesses from small local ISPs to nation wide telcom & cable companies. Not to mention the poor porn industry (LOL).

CWWW: "Let me put it another way. The government builds highways for free public use... so why shouldn't they build information highways?"

People can go to the local library and get on the Internet if they can't afford it at home. If they are that poor how can they afford the computer to even surf the web? Should we give them a computer too?

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

ChrisWWW — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:20:10 -0000

Government provided internet is probably the right move, if there are safeguards for privacy. Ha!

The government is already in the business of libraries, tv channels, radio stations, etc. This would just remove another barrier for low-income families to getting on the web, which has become an integral part of our society.

Let me put it another way. The government builds highways for free public use... so why shouldn't they build information highways?

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

AustinRoth — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:07:15 -0000

I would rather have a spam-free wireless service. Hell, I would pay extra for that.

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

GreenDreams — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:10:10 -0000

Porn free... Global war on tits? Well, as long as my kids can still access graphic violence on the web, that will be just fine. Censorship is such a tedious problem, isn't it?

http://www.bohemianscientis...

Re: Free Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web?

superdestroyer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:07:07 -0000

It would probably result in many of the local phone companies and cable companies going out of business. If they are selling something that the government is going to provide as free, their business models are not going to work. In addition, it will probably kill what remains of the for profit on-line porn business that was the original industry to make money on the internet.