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Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet


From: ww <ww () styx org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:52:10 +0100


On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:


Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and 
proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and
be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure.

Quoting Wu Ming:

        Take everybody's ideas of clear and pure and overlay them and
        pretty soon the only things allowed to be sent over the Internet
        will be Shakespeare and the Bible, and much of that's a grey
        area anyway.


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