Republicans Invented the Internet
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"It is very important that we recognize that the
internet was invented by the Republicans. In 1984,
three extremely important things happened – critical
events to the future of the internet – that created an
environment within which the internet could happen.
Now, this environment that made possible this internet
is the environment we need to focus on as we think
about policies and how they are changing the internet
today. So let us talk about these three Republican
initiatives."Three things essentially are the break up of AT&T, the
freeing up/deregulation of the bandwith spectrum and
the Reagen Supreme Court decision on the SONY
Betamax/VCR issue...all very true..The negatives:
"The new best friends of the Republican Party have
become the copyright cabal. I’ve noticed this at the
very end. This Republican logo is actually copyrighted
if you see down here at the bottom. The new best
friend of the Republican Party is Hollywood because
the Republicans heart Hollywood here. It’s the fastest
growing source of revenue for the Republicans. And the
poster child Republican on the side of the content
industry is our friend Orrin Hatch.The GOP now embraces the idea of regulating these
tools to control the way content is created and
distributed, as well as the behavior that might
violate the copyright laws; this increase in
regulation to protect one of these two forms of
cultural production – read-only cultural production.
This system of regulation reinforces and protects
read-only culture. The simple rules of Sony are gone
and we have massive rent-seeking increasingly
replacing this original rule of minimal regulation."The whole thing is an awesome pretty bias free read
and only informs us of how much I really, really miss
the old school conservatives in this country...