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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 07:03:14 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Obermeyer <obee@netcom.com> To: Dennis Moncrief <moncrief@d3.com> Cc: com-priv@psi.com, Jerry Berman <jberman@eff.org> In-Reply-To: <199402242005.MAA07541@netcomsv.netcom.com> Dennis, by this logic, would you also privatize highways? On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Dennis Moncrief wrote: > As a new subscriber to comp-priv, I've enjoyed the wide ranging debate > these last two weeks. Especially on such topics as proposed new Net rate > structures, the changing role of government regulation and subsidy, > Clipper, and egalitarian goals like guaranteed access for the masses. > > My two cents worth: Privatize the Net > > It's pointless to expect meaningful progress to result from "fine tuning" > or even major reform to current government regulation regarding public > networks. Privatization of a wholly commercial Net with a bare minimum of > government regulation (keep the peace and defend property rights -the just > role of the limited government defined in the US Constitution) and zero > subsidy will result in the most rapid advancement and greatest benefit to > all. > > Free markets have historically proven more effective at delivering intended > results across all areas of human endeavor than government programs or > experiments in collusion and monopoly-building between big government and a > few privileged big business insiders. Grand experiments based on the false > assumptions of state socialism always cost more and deliver less than > market driven initiatives undertaken by free enterprise. > > Who among us can reasonably place our trust in our current government > leaders - the same "leaders" who have run up an unprecedented national debt > that threatens to bankrupt us all - to shepherd and "regulate" something so > vital to global commerce and future prosperity as the Net. I say, get > government out of the way and let business rock and roll! The Net is too > important to trust to government. Let's get it right this time - it's > business, not government, that efficiently creates new technology and turns > it into wealth and prosperity. > > > "I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public > debt as the greatest of dangers. . . we must make our choice between > economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the > government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of > caring for them, they will be happy." > -- THOMAS JEFFERSON > > What would Thomas Jefferson have to say (were he alive today) about the > appropriate role of the current administration regarding the public > networks? Would Al Gore's National Information Highway hyperbole stand up > under Jefferson's scrutiny as anything more than just more government. . . > "wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them..." > > ---- > Dennis Moncrief > Internet: moncrief@d3.com > > >
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