[155316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US House to ITU: Hands off the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sat Aug 4 13:30:11 2012
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Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:29:04 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
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On 04/08/2012 16:55, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Jimmy Hess wrote:
>>> "it is the "consistent and unequivocal policy of the United States to
>>> promote a global Internet free from government control."
>>
>> Now if they would only practice what they preach.....
>
> It will be interesting to see how that statement gets (ab)used the next
> time net neutrality, or legislation like SOPA/PIPA becomes a hot topic.
I suspect they meant "a global Internet free from _other_ government control".
Nick
