[155318] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US House to ITU: Hands off the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Sat Aug 4 13:49:56 2012
In-Reply-To: <501D5BE0.3090308@foobar.org>
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 13:49:05 -0400
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> 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".
>
right and i don't think any government body expects to 'practice what
they preach' (it might sound absurd, sarcastic, or ironical, but i am
truly being serious here). it's more of a 'do what i say, not what i
do' mentality.
