[11389] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: Culture Shock (was Re: Options)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rob horn)
Thu Mar 31 02:40:40 1994
Date: 30 Mar 1994 16:51:40 -0500 (EST)
From: rob horn <horn%temerity@leia.polaroid.com>
In-Reply-To: <9403302136.AB24749@ polaroid.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>
> places. But those are rapidly dissapearing, and as I said especially
> within the USA (where most of these discussions center) the politics
> are no excuse.
>
We are the beneficiaries of a long and hard struggle.
I have been around long enough to remember when the US had similar
internal boundaries called "states" as problems. Prior to the various FCC
Computer Inquiries it was illegal to attach unapproved modems to telephone
lines, or to offer communications services without approval of the
appropriate Public Utilities Commission. The deregulation of the
telephone system has had many good and bad features. This elimination of
internal political walls is one of them. They could reappear with a
stroke of a pen (by Congress, FCC, or state legislature).
Rob Horn horn@temerity.polaroid.com
