[11692] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The EFF and Universal Access -- and Andrew Carnegie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Rothman)
Wed Apr 13 23:48:21 1994
In-Reply-To: <m0pr4YE-000IDfC@crynwr>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 14:06:16 -0400
To: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
Cc: frezza@radiomail.net, brodsky@radiomail.net, interesting-people@eff.org,
farber@central.cis.upenn.edu, opfer@radiomail.net,
stahlman@radiomail.net, com-priv@psi.com, ggilder@mcimail.com,
barlow@eff.org, jswatz@well.sf.ca.us, kgs@panix.com,
media15@radiomail.net, spiff@radiomail.net
From: "David Rothman" <rothman@netcom.com>
Reply-To: rothman@netcom.com
>DATE: Wed, 13 Apr 94 09:00 EDT
>FROM: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
I wrote: "Without free libraries and public schools, just how much does
the vote mean? Would you like a society in which people's exact voting
power reflected the sizes of their bank accounts?"
You said:
>Wow. This is way off-topic, but yes, that *would* be nice.
Well, Russ, at least you're honest about it. H.L. Hunt would have been
proud.
You later said:
>Yes, some things will be unavailable to some people, but
>appeals to charity are always possible, or even <gack> government
>subsidies if you really must.
Yeah. Wanna organize a cookie campaign to wipe out illiteracy? And
what's this about the S word?
Elsewhere you said:
>No, David, we are all entitled to good public schools and libraries.
>The question is how best to provide them.
Sell more cookies, I guess. :-)
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