[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Jim DeLong: Tech industry, prisoner of K Street?

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:50:25 -0500
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From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: Jim DeLong: Tech industry, prisoner of K Street?
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Subject: Prisoners of K Street
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500
From: "James V. Delong" <JDeLong@cei.org>
To: "Declan McCullagh (E-mail)" <declan@well.com>

  Declan -
Re your piece this morning.
Best,
Jim

  http://www.cei.org/utils/printer.cfm?AID=1923

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    Prisoners of K Street
    UpDates
    by James V. DeLong
    November 1, 2000

                             From the October/November issue of CEI
                             UpDate

    Recently I was talking with Roger Cochetti, VP of Network
    Solutions and experienced observer of the high tech scene. "The
    Internet is at a fork," he said. "Over the next couple of years it
    could be confirmed in its existence as a free-market,
    free-wheeling, chaotic, fount of imaginative innovation and
    multiplying value. Or it could go down the road taken by
    broadcasting and telephone, becoming regulated, stodgy, hostile to
    technical progress, and lawyer-driven."

    These comments are serious. A couple of years ago, members of
    Congress boasted that they knew enough to keep their hands off the
    Internet. They must have lost some brain cells since, because in
    the current session over 400 bills were introduced to govern the
    Internet in one way or another. Congress is even adopting the
    device of sticking mandates into appropriations bills, without
    hearings or real thought. You want to require all schools and
    libraries that get federal funds to impose filtering? No
    problem-insert it into in an appropriations bill.

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