[12850] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EFF Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ira Brodsky (via RadioMail))
Tue May 31 21:29:42 1994
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 12:28:19 PDT
From: Ira Brodsky (via RadioMail) <brodsky@radiomail.net>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
To: baer@jessica.stanford.edu
<>You can't tell Cable TV operators what programming to offer,
>force carriers to provide service to rural customers below
>actual cost, or single out certain applications or services for
>preferential treatment without abrogating individual rights.
>Somewhere along the line, the EFF has decided that its social
>engineering agenda takes precedence over individual freedom.>
<<corporations are not individuals, much as the law sometimes pretends otherwise.>>
Sole proprietorships are individuals.
And I'm not certain it's self-evident the people who form corporations should have to relinquish their rights as individuals, much as lawyers would sometimes like them to do. <g>