[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: 74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

Thanks, Alex.
My position differs from freepress.net's, but I also
differ from "the big boys" and from most Greens I've heard
from on the issue.

A lot of Greens think unlimited Internet
access should be a free government-run service.
A lot of Greens, including the GP-US (and the ACLU, and Moveon.org)
think spamming is just fine, as long as it's for a good cause.  
I get accused of "censorship" for trying to keep my servers
running and the mailing lists usable, at least once a month.

The "big boys" echo the Ayn Rand/Chicago School line, that
there's nothing wrong with a monopoly, unless the government
establishes it, or you abuse it too much.  And even government
established monopolies are okay as long as they're not
regulated too much.  I think monopolies are inherently evil,
and they're also the natural steady state of markets.
That's way outside the boundaries of the Merc's op-ed page.

-Cameron



>From: Alex Walker <AlexCathy at aol.com>
>To: "Cameron L. Spitzer" <cls at truffula.sj.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: 74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:31:55 -0700
>Cc: "sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>

>Cameron, your analysis of this issue is very important. You should =
>submit it as an op-Ed. Since this is one of those rare instances where =
>the Green position is on the same side as the "Silicon Valley" big boys, =
>maybe even the "Murky News" would print it.



>On Jun 5, 2010, at 10:06 PM, cls at truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) =
>wrote:

>>=20
>> Corporations block Internet traffic every day.
>> Every millisecond.  It's a vital part of keeping the network
>> running.