Re: <nettime> Re: The old, government-controlled internet

[David Mandl <dmandl@panix.com>]

That was my point.  In the eyes of a CEO, the only possibilities in
the world are "free market" (in this case a corporate-dominated
internet, with privacy trounced on and advertising everywhere) or
"government control" (I bet he was tempted to say "socialist").  This
is a classic false dichotomy.  He has no idea what he's talking about,
or hopes that no reading the interview will call him on it.

   --D.


On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Guy Van Belle wrote:

> Well, if I remember well, there was no advertising, but it wasn't really
> controlled at all. First of all, governments in Europe were totally
> unaware of it, and secondly, only academics were on it, and in any case 
> you could set up and do what you wanted! And put on your own server what
> you wanted! No one was claiming anything, while now I have 3 copyright
> claims running for some stupid beginning of the century poststamp gif
> reproductions I used for educational sites! 
> 

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, David Mandl wrote:
> 
> > >From an interview with Kevin O'Connor, CEO of Double Click (now under
> > attack for invasion of web-surfers' privacy) in today's Guardian
> > (U.K.):
> > 
> > "There are people on the net who want to go back to the old days when
> > there was no advertising and it was government controlled."
> > 
> > This was printed as a large pull-quote, btw.
> > 
> >    --Dave.

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Dave Mandl
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