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More DPI (or what Marketplace? djf)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:11:27 -0700
________________________________________ From: Dan Gillmor [dan () gillmor com] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 5:00 PM To: David Farber Subject: More DPI
In any commercial transaction (buying a car, haircut, or ISP services), parties are limited by the law, regulation, and the contract/terms of service. Anything else is fair game; people can do what they want. Disclosure will occur if there are regulations/ToS requiring it; otherwise, it will be as the market dictates.
The first two of those offer many different competitors. The last offers, at most, two competitors in the vast majority of places. They come from regulated, monopoly industries where they could not have pulled this kind of crap before; imagine, as someone else has noted, if phone companies declared it their right to listen in on conversations in order to sell products (or anything else). Now, abusing the power they've been handed by a clueless Congress (which will, I predict, do *nothing* but be concerned when it comes down to actual legislation) and a pro-corporate executive branch, they are acting almost in concert to assert anti-privacy rights with their customers, who have essentially no alternatives. This is not a fair game. It's a rigged one, with a "marketplace" that is so uneven in power that the customer is helpless. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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