[107202] in Cypherpunks
Re: Internet = LD Call?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Tue Jan 5 16:17:47 1999
In-Reply-To: <000301be38e5$a532f900$03000004@ibm>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:46:29 -0800
To: <xasper8d@lobo.net>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 11:57 AM -0800 1/5/99, X wrote:
>What is the skinny on the possibilty of Congress allowing the L/D companies
>to start charging us Long Distance charges to access the internet?
>
>Is this a hoax, or should some hackles be up on it?
>
And what "long distance" rate might that be? $3 a minute, like the cost to
call Borneo? $0.43 a minute, like the cost to dial from New York to
Copenhagen?
Do you think there is some magical rate they could charge?
And how would the rent collectors know who I'm connecting to, and where
they are? (Think of Web proxies.)
Use common sense.
--Tim May
We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and
their children. We would kill their families
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