[38] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Example of how Federal control of Internet censors content
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Sun Oct 28 23:40:13 1990
To: gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 28 Oct 90 16:33:47 -0800.
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 90 22:09:53 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
John,
NSF doesn't own the network, they own a tiny piece, most of the
mid-levels have larger networks, PSINet is both larger and is national
to boot. Kuhn would say that we are having a paradigm shift, the free
R&E backbone with mid-level R&E networks are the incumbent "science"
being overtaken by the commercial no-restriction "science".
When the organizations (mostly commercial, but non-commercial too)
make the determination that the R&E model is no longer sufficient
then they will leave the old model and join the new.
Marty
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The details on that situation are followed by commentary that explains
how, since NSF owns the network, this is not censorship. The files are
gone, and people who want to read them cannot, but this is not
censorship. There is no other national collaborative network for
Washington U. to offer their archives to, but this is not censorship.
It's just a simple matter of control of resources.
