[116959] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cowards at Amazon.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Tue Aug 24 11:20:53 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:49:57 -0400
To: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
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At 06:00 PM 8/22/99 -0500, Eric Cordian wrote:
>Yet, if you were a group of major providers, like Tripod, Geocities, and
>AOL, who collectively host a good chunk of the nation's web sites, such
>"editing," which I fully agree is not "censorship", would mean that
>popular widely held non-offensive opinion would have access to massive
>bandwidth, and anything else would have to buy bytes at premium commercial
>rates. That's a very tilted playing field.
What does this sentence mean in the context of the Net: "who collectively
host a good chunk of the nation's web sites"?
Which is larger, Infinity or Infinity + 1?
DCF
