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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Wed Jun 22 11:17:17 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 11:11:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: damartin@ampere.mit.edu's message [] as of Jun 22, 10:07
To: damartin@ampere.mit.edu, libertarians@MIT.EDU
| > said Leslie Harris, Director of Public Policy
| >for the People For the American Way Action Fund (PFAWAF). "Senator
| >Inouye's bill creates an electronic `public square' where diverse
| >political, artistic and cultural expression can flourish. It is vital
| >to ensuring that the interests of the public are not left behind on
| >the information `superhighway.'"
|
| Of course, they won't like it when the KKK and other such
| groups demand their free access to the infobahn.
I've heard that some cable companies, in order to get their monopoly
privileges from their cities, created "community access" channels, and
then were forced to let the KKK have some time on the channel!
Of course, the Left will always try to make sure that "diverse political,
artistic and cultural expression" means letting both feminists and
Marxists on, but they will try to restrict it by saying the discourse
has to "serve the public interest" and then argue that anything they
don't agree with doesn't serve the public interest.
- Kevin
