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Re: FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:18:54 -0700
________________________________________ From: Randy Fischer [randy.fischer () gmail com] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:47 PM To: salex () dsalex org; David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet Dave, I think this has strayed off topic, but who knows? Scott, Alas, it's impossible to do historical experiments, so this is conjecture. But my point wasn't so much that if only pR0n had been available, Ham would have taken off - rather, that the restrictions placed had the unfortunate and contrary side effect that the Amateur Radio network couldn't expand. An example: about twenty years ago, I wanted to network two LANs together over packet radio. Now (as I recall) I was allowed to set up unattended point-to-point LAN/radio routers, but it was impractical because of the risk of someone sending commercial or obscene material, and I could not very well monitor it. And of course, encrypting the data was strictly forbidden. So I moved on. - Randy Fischer ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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